Synonyms for tangents
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : tan-juhnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæn dʒənt |
Top 10 synonyms for tangents Other synonyms for the word tangents
- bend
- blank wall
- cant
- climb
- cul-de-sac
- dead end
- dead-end street
- declivity
- deflection
- departure
- descent
- detour
- deviation
- difference
- digression
- direction
- discursion
- divagation
- divergence
- divergency
- diversion
- double
- downgrade
- drifting
- echelon
- elevation
- embankment
- episode
- excursion
- excursus
- footnote
- gradient
- heading
- height
- hill
- impasse
- incident
- inclination
- inclined plane
- interpolation
- interposition
- irrelevancy
- lean
- leaning
- line
- method
- note
- obiter dictum
- oblique course
- obliquity
- parenthesis
- path
- pitch
- plan
- plane
- point of sail
- procedure
- rambling
- ramp
- rise
- set
- shift
- side remark
- siding
- sidling
- slant
- sweep
- swerve
- switch
- tactic
- tangent
- throwaway
- tilt
- turn
- upgrade
- variation
- wandering
- way
- yaw
- zigzag
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for tangents
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