Tangential

Even his everyday speech was an off-the-cuff, tangential, disjointed narrative.

The liquid flow submits the container to what we call tangential stress.

When left to my own devices, I tend to daydream and get lost in a series of tangential thought patterns.

The meteor came in on a tangential orbit and exploded about 8 or 10 miles above the earth's surface, just south of the Arctic Circle.

A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.

The archoplasm divides and forms a very large spindle which first lies tangential to the surface of the nucleus.

That subject is tangential to our discussion, and we cannot let it distract us.