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    In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at...
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    The Tangent is a progressive rock group formed in 2002, led by keyboardist and singer Andy Tillison. The band was formed in 2002 by Parallel or 90 Degrees...
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    most widely used in modern mathematics are the sine, the cosine, and the tangent functions. Their reciprocals are respectively the cosecant, the secant...
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  • In mathematics, the tangent space of a manifold is a generalization of tangent lines to curves in two-dimensional space and tangent planes to surfaces...
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  • In solid mechanics, the tangent modulus is the slope of the stress–strain curve at any specified stress or strain. Below the proportional limit (the limit...
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    A tangent bundle is the collection of all of the tangent spaces for all points on a manifold, structured in a way that it forms a new manifold itself....
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  • In mathematics, a tangent vector is a vector that is tangent to a curve or surface at a given point. Tangent vectors are described in the differential...
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    tangent, circles, the radii of the circles satisfy a certain quadratic equation. By solving this equation, one can construct a fourth circle tangent to...
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  • geometry, a tangent line to a circle is a line that touches the circle at exactly one point, never entering the circle's interior. Tangent lines to circles...
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    vertical tangent is a tangent line that is vertical. Because a vertical line has infinite slope, a function whose graph has a vertical tangent is not differentiable...
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  • In geometry, the tangent cone is a generalization of the notion of the tangent space to a manifold to the case of certain spaces with singularities. In...
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    Tangent arcs are a type of halo, an atmospheric optical phenomenon, which appears above and below the observed Sun or Moon, tangent to the 22° halo. To...
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    Tangent is a city in Linn County, Oregon, United States. The population was 1,231 at the 2020 census. Tangent was the site of a railway station on the...
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    Therefore, the expression on the right-hand side is just the equation for the tangent line to the graph of f {\displaystyle f} at ( a , f ( a ) ) {\displaystyle...
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  • Look up tangent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A tangent, in geometry, is a straight line through a point on a curve that has the same direction...
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  • Tangent is a social networking organisation for ladies aged over 45, primarily intended for former members of Ladies Circle. It is part of the Round Table...
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    In Euclidean geometry, the tangent-secant theorem describes the relation of line segments created by a secant and a tangent line with the associated circle...
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    The tangent piano is a very rare keyboard instrument that resembles a harpsichord and early pianos in design. It normally features five octaves of keys...
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  • geometry, tangent circles (also known as kissing circles) are circles in a common plane that intersect in a single point. There are two types of tangency: internal...
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  • Dielectric loss (redirect from Loss Tangent)
    parameterized in terms of either the loss angle δ or the corresponding loss tangent tan(δ). Both refer to the phasor in the complex plane whose real and imaginary...
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    hyperbolic cosine "cosh" (/ˈkɒʃ, ˈkoʊʃ/), from which are derived: hyperbolic tangent "tanh" (/ˈtæŋ, ˈtæntʃ, ˈθæn/), hyperbolic cotangent "coth" (/ˈkɒθ, ˈkoʊθ/)...
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    hemisphere. A tangent ogive nose is often blunted by capping it with a segment of a sphere. The tangency point where the sphere meets the tangent ogive can...
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    In trigonometry, the law of tangents or tangent rule is a statement about the relationship between the tangents of two angles of a triangle and the lengths...
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    tangents can always be drawn to a circle from any point outside the circle, and these tangents are equal in length. If a tangent at A and a tangent at...
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    a tangent developable is a particular kind of developable surface obtained from a curve in Euclidean space as the surface swept out by the tangent lines...
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    and the accompanying diagram show that the tangent BE bisects the angle ∠FEC. In other words, the tangent to the parabola at any point bisects the angle...
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    pushforward is a linear approximation of smooth maps (formulating manifold) on tangent spaces. Suppose that φ : M → N {\displaystyle \varphi \colon M\to N} is...
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    sequence of increasing balls sharing (on one side) a tangent hyperplane and its point of tangency. For n = 2 a horosphere is called a horocycle. A horosphere...
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    largest distance that can be formed between two opposite parallel lines tangent to its boundary, and the width is often defined to be the smallest such...
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    trigonometry, tangent half-angle formulas relate the tangent of half of an angle to trigonometric functions of the entire angle. The tangent of half an angle...
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