tangents in English

noun
1
a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point, but if extended does not cross it at that point.
He noticed that he could draw three straight lines, or tangents , that each touched all three circles.
2
a completely different line of thought or action.
he quickly went off on a tangent about wrestling
3
the trigonometric function that is equal to the ratio of the sides (other than the hypotenuse) opposite and adjacent to an angle in a right triangle.
The first tabulates logarithms of the sine, cosine, tangent and cotangent functions at 1 intervals and shows how to solve triangles using logarithmic functions.
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1. Procedure followed to get the values of logs, Antilogs, sines, tangents, cotangets, etc

2. Road alignment : The route of the road, defined as a series of horizontal tangents and curves.

3. The tables of logarithms of sines, secants, and tangents were also required for the purposes of navigation.

4. The tangents to the cutting edges intersect the central axis at an angle greater than 10° and less than 90°.

5. Thus there is a circle centered at E with both A B and A C as tangents, so A E Bisects the angle between those lines.

6. The angle is formed by the spinal plane and the line joining Condylare and Pogonion, both of which are shifted to the respective lower jaw bone tangents.

7. Antiparallels 2 1, 1 2, 1 2 respectively pass through O, the center of the circumscribed circle (the Antiparallels have the directions of the tangents taken to the circumscribed circle in , , )

8. Axes of abscissas and co-ordinates are directed forward and upwards in such a way that they are tangents to the upper surface of the seat and to the front surface of the seatback, correspondingly.

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10. ‘The first tabulates logarithms of the sine, cosine, tangent and Cotangent functions at 1 intervals and shows how to solve triangles using logarithmic functions.’ ‘I can't tell the difference between radians, tangents, Cotangents, secants, etc.’ ‘Since we want the Cotangent, just take the reciprocal to solve.’

11. ‘The first tabulates logarithms of the sine, cosine, tangent and Cotangent functions at 1 intervals and shows how to solve triangles using logarithmic functions.’ ‘I can't tell the difference between radians, tangents, Cotangents, secants, etc.’ ‘Since we want the Cotangent, just take the reciprocal to solve.’