Antonyms for tangential
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : tan-jen-shuh l |
Phonetic Transcription : tænˈdʒɛn ʃəl |
Definition of tangential
Origin :- 1620s, see tangent; figurative sense of "divergent, erratic" is from 1787. Related: Tangentially.
- adj digressing
- 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
Synonyms for tangential
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