Usually means: Line touching curve at one point.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. tangent line: Merriam-Webster
  2. tangent line: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. tangent line: Dictionary.com
  4. Tangent line: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. tangent line: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. tangent line: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangent line: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tangent Line: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. tangent line: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (tangent line)

noun:  (differential geometry) Synonym of tangent (“straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there”).

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