Usually means: Line touching circle at one point.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tangent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tangent, tangent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tangent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tangent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tangent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tangent, tangent: Wordnik
  7. tangent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tangent: Wiktionary
  9. tangent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tangent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tangent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tangent: Dictionary.com
  13. tangent (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tangent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tangent (disambiguation), Tangent (geometry), Tangent (trigonometric function), Tangent (trigonometry), Tangent, The Tangent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tangent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tangent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tangent: Rhymezone
  19. tangent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tangent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tangent: Free Dictionary
  22. tangent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tangent: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tangent: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Tangent (geometry), Tangent (trigonometry), tangent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tangent (geometry), Tangent (trigonometric function), Tangent (trigonometry), tangent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangent: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tangent: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. tangent: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  3. tangent, tangent, tangent: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (differential geometry) A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.
noun:  (mathematics) A function of an angle that gives the ratio of the sine to the cosine, in either the real or complex numbers. Symbols: tan, tg.
noun:  A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.
noun:  (art) A visual interaction between two or more lines or edges that creates a perceived relationship between them, often in a way that the artist did not intend.
noun:  (music) A small metal blade in a clavichord that strikes the strings to produce sound.
adjective:  (geometry) Touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point.
adjective:  Of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic.
adjective:  (rail transport, of track) Straight; not horizontally curved.

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