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tangential

/tænˈd͡ʒɛn.t͡ʃəl/

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What does tangential mean?

adjective

  1. Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
  2. Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
  3. Only indirectly related.

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IPA pronunciation

/tænˈd͡ʒɛn.t͡ʃəl/

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QUINCY--The book section of a department store doesn't get much chance to enjoy that tangential advertising, as Fruehling calls it.
Christopher MorleyThe Haunted BookshopProject Gutenberg ebook #172
The system of rigging or car suspension is simplicity itself and is tangential to the envelope.
George WhaleBritish Airships, Past, Present, and FutureProject Gutenberg ebook #762
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A TANGENT.--When an object is thrown horizontally the line of flight is tangential to the earth, or at right angles to the force of gravity.
James Slough ZerbeAeroplanesProject Gutenberg ebook #1445
In a wind of fourteen miles per hour resistance is by no means a negligible factor, so that tangential is evidently a force of considerable value.
Evelyn Charles Vivian; W. Lockwood (William Lockwood) MarshA History of AeronauticsProject Gutenberg ebook #874