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  1. tangent planes: Merriam-Webster
  2. tangent planes: Vocabulary.com
  3. tangent planes: Wiktionary

(Note: See tangent_plane 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.
▸ Also see tangent_plane


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