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We found 40 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word tangent: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "tangent" is defined. General (29 matching dictionaries) tangent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] tangent: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] tangent: Vocabulary.com [home, info] tangent: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] tangent: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Tangent, tangent: Wordnik [home, info] tangent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Tangent: Wiktionary [home, info] tangent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] tangent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] tangent: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] tangent: Dictionary.com [home, info] tangent (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] Tangent, tangent: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] tangent: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] tangent: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info] Tangent (Stargate SG-1), Tangent (clavichord), Tangent (disambiguation), Tangent (geometry), Tangent (tangent piano), Tangent (trigonometric function), Tangent (trigonometry), Tangent, The Tangent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Tangent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] tangent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] tangent: Rhymezone [home, info] tangent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] tangent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] tangent: Free Dictionary [home, info] tangent: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] tangent: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] tangent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] tangent: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Art (2 matching dictionaries) tangent: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info] Tangent: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info] Business (2 matching dictionaries) Tangent: Construction Term Glossary [home, info] Tangent (geometry), Tangent (trigonometry), tangent: Legal dictionary [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) Tangent (geometry), Tangent (trigonometric function), Tangent (trigonometry), tangent: Encyclopedia [home, info] Medicine (1 matching dictionary) tangent: online medical dictionary [home, info] Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary) tangent: Idioms [home, info] Science (3 matching dictionaries) Tangent: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info] tangent: MATH SPOKEN HERE! [home, info] tangent, tangent, tangent: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info] Slang (1 matching dictionary) tangent: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (tangent) ▸ noun:  ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle ▸ noun:  a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point ▸ Word origin