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Synonyms for tangential

Grammar : Adj
Spell : tan-jen-shuh l
Phonetic Transcription : tænˈdʒɛn ʃəl


Définition of tangential

Origin :
  • 1620s, see tangent; figurative sense of "divergent, erratic" is from 1787. Related: Tangentially.
  • adj digressing
Example sentences :
  • In Fig. 6, F represents the tangential force that tends to cause skidding.
  • Extract from : « American Rural Highways » by T. R. Agg
  • From this simple lattice sphere all other Sphroidea can be derived either by radial or by tangential growth.
  • Extract from : « Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) » by Ernst Haeckel
  • The tangential needles always seem to have the same shape as I have accurately described, in 1862, of Aulacantha scolymantha.
  • Extract from : « Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index » by Ernst Haeckel
  • They are, in short, mountains of elevation, ridged up by tangential thrusts.
  • Extract from : « Fragments of Earth Lore » by James Geikie
  • It follows that a line from B to M will always be tangential to the epicycloid.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 » by Various
  • Tangential, a longitudinal plane not including the organic axis.
  • Extract from : « Wood and Forest » by William Noyes
  • The photographs of tangential and radial sections are life size.
  • Extract from : « Wood and Forest » by William Noyes
  • In pine there are some 15,000 of them to a square inch of a tangential section.
  • Extract from : « Wood and Forest » by William Noyes
  • At the point, A, it is moving in the tangential direction, A D.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 » by Various
  • The effect of this tangential force acting on the tide-compelling body is gradually to increase its distance from the other body.
  • Extract from : « Pioneers of Science » by Oliver Lodge

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