Antonyms for tangents

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tan-juhnt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæn dʒənt

Definition of tangents

Origin : 1590s, "meeting at a point without intersecting," from Latin tangentem (nominative tangens), present participle of tangere "to touch," from PIE root *tag- "to touch, to handle" (cf. Latin tactus "touch," Greek tetagon "having seized," Old English þaccian "stroke, strike gently"). First used by Danish mathematician Thomas Fincke in "Geomietria Rotundi" (1583). Extended sense of "slightly connected with a subject" is first recorded 1825. The noun also is attested from 1590s.

As in aside : noun confidential statement
As in tack : noun course of movement
As in blind alley : noun closed-off passage
As in excursus : noun digression
As in irrelevancy : noun digression
As in parenthesis : noun digression
As in grade : noun incline, slope

Example sentences :

These tangents meet on the line of centers at A, which will be the pallet center.
Extract from : « An Analysis of the Lever Escapement » by H. R. Playtner

In the problem of tangents the new process may be described as follows.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 14, Slice 5 » by Various

But as there was usually some method in Mr. Nikolai's tangents, she read on.
Extract from : « Why Joan? » by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

Erratic, fickle, irrepressible, they are perpetually flying off at tangents.
Extract from : « Feminism and Sex-Extinction » by Arabella Kenealy

This is equivalent to three points and the tangents at two of them.
Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 » by Various

We then have the case of tangents to three pairs of circles.
Extract from : « The Teaching of Geometry » by David Eugene Smith

On the first of the tangents the locomotive was stopped at a watering-tank.
Extract from : « The King of Arcadia » by Francis Lynde

"Ned's on one of his tangents again," said Mrs. Latimer, with a shrug.
Extract from : « In the Van; or, The Builders » by John Price-Brown

It was the German clavichord that had 'tangents' of brass at the ends of the key levers.
Extract from : « Shakespeare and Music » by Edward W. Naylor

All the free lines in the room were the tangents of irrelevancy and disorder.
Extract from : « Jerome, A Poor Man » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Synonyms for tangents

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