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tangents
/ˈtændʒənts/
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What does tangents mean?
noun
- plural of tangent
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of tangent
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtændʒənts/
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Picture a circle surrounded by a bristling mass of tangents, or rather a polygon with its sides extended in all directions.
The conic section is submitted to algebra, an obstetrical appliance which brings forth the equation; and behold, entreated now in one direction, now in another, the womb of the formula gives birth to the ellipse, the hyperbola, the parabola, their foci, their radius vectors, their tangents, their normals, their conjugate axes, their asymptotes and the rest.