"Eh? Is the tangent cosine divided by sine?" "Other way round!"
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Tangent
/ˈtæn.d͡ʒənt/
Synonyms for "tangent" (105 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (32)
Noun(10 words)
contact linecontact planecontactingdigressingdigressiondigressionsdigressiveexcursionexcursionsexcursus
Related words (52)
grazinggreat-circle coursehubimmediate neighborlooker-onmeetingmutual approachnarrowing gapneighborneighborernormalonlookerperpendicularradialradiatingradiusradius vectorright linerubbingsecant
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segmentshortcutsidespokespokesstraightstraight coursestraight linestraight stretchstraightawaystreamlinetacktangentialtransversalunitingvector
Noun(9 words)
Adjective(6 words)
Verb(1 words)
Related word relations
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5 entriesCollocations
5 entriestangent linetangent planetangent pointtangent remarktangent space
Inflections
2 entriesmore tangentmost tangent
Derivations
3 entriesTranslations
48 translations across 43 languages.
Afrikaans
4 entries- raaklyn noun (in trigonometry)
- raaklyne noun (in trigonometry)
- tangens noun (in trigonometry)
- tangense noun (in trigonometry)
Arabic
1 entries- ظِلّ الزَّاوِيَة noun (in trigonometry)
Armenian
1 entries- տանգենս noun (in trigonometry)
Asturian
1 entries- tanxente noun (in trigonometry)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- tangens noun (in trigonometry)
Belarusian
1 entries- та́нгенс noun (in trigonometry)
Bulgarian
1 entries- та́нгенс noun (in trigonometry)
Burmese
1 entries- တန်းဂျင့် noun (in trigonometry)
Catalan
1 entries- tangent noun (in trigonometry)
Cebuano
1 entries- liras noun (in trigonometry)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 正切 noun (in trigonometry)
Czech
1 entries- tangens noun (in trigonometry)
Danish
1 entries- tangens noun (in trigonometry)
Dutch
1 entries- tangens noun (in trigonometry)
Esperanto
1 entries- tangento noun (in trigonometry)
Finnish
1 entries- tangentti noun (in trigonometry)
French
1 entries- tangente noun (in trigonometry)
Galician
1 entries- tanxente noun (in trigonometry)
German
1 entries- Tangens noun (in trigonometry)
Greek
1 entries- εφαπτομένη noun (in trigonometry)
Hebrew
1 entries- טנגנס noun (in trigonometry)
Hungarian
1 entries- tangens noun (in trigonometry)
Icelandic
1 entries- tangens noun (in trigonometry)
Italian
1 entries- tangente noun (in trigonometry)
Japanese
2 entries- タンジェント noun (in trigonometry)
- 正接 noun (in trigonometry)
Khmer
1 entries- តង់សង់ noun (in trigonometry)
Korean
1 entries- 탄젠트 noun (in trigonometry)
Manx
1 entries- tanjent noun (in trigonometry)
Māori
1 entries- pātapa noun (in trigonometry)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tangens noun (in trigonometry)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- tangens noun (in trigonometry)
Persian
2 entries- تانژانت noun (in trigonometry)
- ظل noun (in trigonometry)
Polish
1 entries- tangens noun (in trigonometry)
Portuguese
1 entries- tangente noun (in trigonometry)
Romanian
1 entries- tangentă noun (in trigonometry)
Russian
1 entries- та́нгенс noun (in trigonometry)
Spanish
1 entries- tangente noun (in trigonometry)
Swedish
1 entries- tangens noun (in trigonometry)
Tagalog
1 entries- tanway noun (in trigonometry)
Thai
1 entries- แทนเจนต์ noun (in trigonometry)
Turkish
1 entries- tanjant noun (in trigonometry)
Ukrainian
1 entries- та́нгенс noun (in trigonometry)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tang noun (in trigonometry)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
Tom went off on a tangent.
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The line s is tangent to the circumference described.
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Stop me if I go off on a tangent.
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