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Synonyms for tangent
ˈtæn dʒənttan·gent

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  1. tangentnoun

    a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point

    Synonyms:
    tan

  2. tangent, tannoun

    ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle

    Synonyms:
    tan, suntan, burn, sunburn, topaz

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  1. List of paraphrases for "tangent":

    tangential, getaway

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#4915burn
#6290tan
#13338getaway
#15934topaz
#21598tangent
#40719sunburn
#46883tangential
#70620suntan

How to use tangent in a sentence?

  1. Valery Giscard:

    From the outset, Britain positioned itself somewhat at a tangent to the European system, the current efforts by David Cameron's government run along the same lines.

  2. "Scratch" Garrison:

    A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality.

  3. Alex Oshmyansky:

    I was and still am a practicing physician and was just pretty upset about that, so I decided to go on kind of a tangent [ to ] try to fix it.


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