tangent in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for tangent in the English»French Dictionary

I.tangent [Brit ˈtan(d)ʒ(ə)nt, Am ˈtændʒənt] N (all contexts)

tangent

tangente f

to fly off at a tangent object, ball:

dévier

to go off at or on a tangent (in speech)

partir dans une digression

II.tangent [Brit ˈtan(d)ʒ(ə)nt, Am ˈtændʒənt] ADJ

tangent

tangent (to à)

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tangent (tangente)

tangent

tangent à

at a tangent to

tangente

tangent

disjoncter (perdre le fil)

to go off at a tangent Brit

disjoncter (perdre le fil)

to go off on a tangent Am

partir dans une digression

to go off on a tangent

tangent in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for tangent in the English»French Dictionary

tangent [ˈtændʒənt] N MATH

tangent a. fig

tangente f

to go off on a tangent

partir sur un autre sujet

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tangent(e)

tangent

tangente

tangent

tangent Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to go off on a tangent

partir sur un autre sujet

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

For any object moving through space, the velocity vector is tangent to the trajectory.

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The elements of the tangent space are called tangent vectors at "x".

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In fact, is this case, the "x" -axis is a double tangent.

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This means that clustered together the tangents fill describe the shape of the generating circle.

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Here grade refers to the tangent of the angle of rise of the track.

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You get on these tangents, and you find new directions.

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Further study of tangent measures and tangent spaces leads to the notion of a varifold.

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If there exists at least one intersection point with multiplicity 1, then the two conic sections are said to be tangent.

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In any elliptic hexlet, such as the one shown at the top of the article, there are two tangent planes to the hexlet.

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So there is a one-to-one map between vectors (thought of as tangent vectors at a point) and derivations.

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