Usually means: Contact at a single point.
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  1. tangency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. tangency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. tangency: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tangency: Vocabulary.com
  5. tangency: Wordnik
  6. tangency: Wiktionary
  7. tangency: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. tangency: Dictionary.com
  9. Tangency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. tangency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. tangency: Rhymezone
  12. Tangency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. tangency: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tangency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. tangency: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. tangency: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangency: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangency: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangency: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangency: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (tangency)

noun:  The state of being tangent; an instance of (something) being tangent.

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