Word Type

Noun

Adjective

The word "tangent" can be used as noun and adjective.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

arctangent cotangent fly off at a tangent go off at a tangent go off on a tangent hyperbolic tangent inflectional tangent inverse tangent tangent bundle tangent plane tangent space tangently

Etymologically Related To

thack thwack

Context

geometry math

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

circular function straight line trigonometric function

Type Of (IsA)

straight line trigonometric function

Related Terms

cosine non sequitur sine tangential trigonometry

Related Terms

angle blade clavichord common complex cosine crossing curve line non sequitur number point real sine straight tangential topic touching trigonometry unrelated

Synonym Network

tangent line

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.