Usually means: Plane touching surface at point.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. tangent plane: Merriam-Webster
  2. tangent plane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. tangent plane: Vocabulary.com
  4. tangent plane: Wordnik
  5. tangent plane: Wiktionary
  6. tangent plane: Dictionary.com
  7. Tangent plane: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. tangent plane: Rhymezone
  9. tangent plane: FreeDictionary.org
  10. tangent plane: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. tangent plane: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tangent Plane: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
  3. tangent plane, tangent plane (elementary): PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See tangent_planes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tangent plane)

noun:  (differential geometry) The plane passing through a given point which contains the tangent lines of all the curves on a surface passing through that same point.

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