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Definition of tangent:
(n) :
a straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there; in a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the side adjacent to the angle. Symbol: tan
"I believe we went off onto a tangent when we started talking about unicycles."
(adj) :
touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point; of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic
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Definition of tangent:
(n) :
a straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there; in a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the side adjacent to the angle. Symbol: tan
"I believe we went off onto a tangent when we started talking about unicycles."
(adj) :
touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point; of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic