Definisjon av tangent

Vi fant 10 definisjoner av tangent på engelsk.

WordNet

Noun
tangent - a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point
		straight line a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature; "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line"
tangent - ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
		tan
		circular function, trigonometric function function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle

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Substantiv
tangent - A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.
tangent - In a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the side adjacent to the angle. Symbols: tan, tg.
tangent - A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.
tangent - A small metal blade by which a clavichord produces sound.
Adjektiv
tangent - Touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point.
tangent - Of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic.

The tangent line (or simply the tangent) to a curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point (in the sense explained more precisely below). As it passes through the point where the tangent line and the curve meet, or the point of tangency, the tangent line is "going in the same direction" as the curve, and in this sense it is the best straight-line approximation to the curve at that point. The same definition applies to space curves and curves in n-dimensional Euclidean space.

tangent
A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.

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