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📖 Определения и значения для слова tangent

📒 a straight line that touches the outside of a curve but does not cross it

  • The cart track branches off at a tangent.

📒 the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle in a right-angled triangle to the length of the side next to it

📒 to suddenly start saying or doing something that does not seem to be connected to what has gone before

  • He never sticks to the point but keeps going off at a tangent.
  • Laura’s mind went off at a tangent.
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