tangential
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
tangential
- Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
- Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
- 1898, Gary Nathan Calkins, Mitosis in Noctiluca miliaris and its bearing on the nuclear relations of the Protozoa and Metazoa, Ph.D. Thesis, page 3
- The archoplasm divides and forms a very large spindle which first lies tangential to the surface of the nucleus.
- 1898, Gary Nathan Calkins, Mitosis in Noctiluca miliaris and its bearing on the nuclear relations of the Protozoa and Metazoa, Ph.D. Thesis, page 3
- Only indirectly related.
- That subject is tangential to our discussion, and we cannot let it distract us.
- German: tangential
- Italian: tangenziale
- Russian: тангенциальный
- Spanish: tangencial
- German: tangential, streifend, berührend
- Italian: tangenziale
- Russian: касающийся
- German: nebensächlich
- Italian: tangenziale
- Russian: отклоня́ющийся
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