Phrase Hound found 26 phrases and 12 compound words that contain tangent. The most common are listed below. Open tangent in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 26
- tangent planeThe plane passing through a given point which contains the tangent lines of all the curves on a surface passing through that same point.
- hyperbolic tangentA hyperbolic function that is the analogue of the tangent function for hyperbolic spaces, taking in a hyperbolic angle as an argument and returning the y-coordinate for the corresponding point on the unit hyperbola, symbolically …
- tangent spaceAn n-dimensional vector space that represents the set of all vectors tangent to given n-dimensional differentiable manifold M at point x.
- tangent lineSynonym of tangent (“straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there”).
- tangent bundleA fiber bundle for which the base space is a differentiable manifold and each fiber over a point of that manifold is the tangent space of that point.
- fly off at a tangentTo digress from a topic.
- inverse tangentSynonym of arctangent: Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the tangent function. Symbol: arctan, tan⁻¹
- tangent spacesplural of tangent space: An n-dimensional vector space that represents the set of all vectors tangent to given n-dimensional differentiable manifold M at point x.
- go off at a tangentAlternative form of go off on a tangent: To digress from a topic.
- go off on a tangentSynonym of fly off at a tangent: To digress from a topic.
- goes off at a tangentthird-person singular simple present indicative of go off at a tangent: To digress from a topic.
- goes off on a tangentthird-person singular simple present indicative of go off on a tangent: To digress from a topic.
- going off at a tangentpresent participle and gerund of go off at a tangent
- going off on a tangentpresent participle and gerund of go off on a tangent
- gone off at a tangentpast participle of go off at a tangent: To digress from a topic.
- gone off on a tangentpast participle of go off on a tangent: To digress from a topic.
- went off at a tangentsimple past of go off at a tangent
- went off on a tangentsimple past of go off on a tangent
- flying off at a tangentpresent participle and gerund of fly off at a tangent
- tangent bundlesplural of tangent bundle: A fiber bundle for which the base space is a differentiable manifold and each fiber over a point of that manifold is the tangent space of that point.
- tangent linesplural of tangent line: Synonym of tangent (“straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there”).
- tangent planesplural of tangent plane: The plane passing through a given point which contains the tangent lines of all the curves on a surface passing through that same point.
- inflectional tangentA tangent to a curve at a point of inflection.
- flew off at a tangentsimple past of fly off at a tangent
- flies off at a tangentthird-person singular simple present indicative of fly off at a tangent: To digress from a topic.
Compound words 12
- tangentoidA graph of the tan (tangent) function
- antitangentSynonym of arctangent: Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the tangent function. Symbol: arctan, tan⁻¹
- bitangentA line that is tangent to a curve at two points
- semitangentThe tangent of half an arc.
- subtangentThe part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.
- tritangentA line that is tangent to a curve at three points.
- tangentlyIn a tangent or tangential manner, tangentially.
- tangentialReferring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
- arctangentAny of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the tangent function. Symbol: arctan, tan⁻¹
- gyrotangentA gyroline that intersects a gyrocircle in exactly one point.