tangent in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for tangent in the English»Spanish Dictionary

tangent [Am ˈtændʒənt, Brit ˈtan(d)ʒ(ə)nt] N

tangent

tangente f

to go or fly off at or on a tangent

irse por las ramas

to go or fly off at or on a tangent (trying to change the subject)

salirse or escaparse por la tangente

Translations for tangent in the Spanish»English Dictionary

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tangente

tangent

irse o salirse o escaparse por la tangente (cambiar de tema)

to go off at a tangent

irse por los cerros de Úbeda

to go off at a tangent

hizo tantas disquisiciones que no entendí nada

he went off at a tangent so often o he digressed so many times that I didn't understand a thing

se fue por el desvío

she went off at a tangent

el conferenciante empezó a divagar

the speaker began to go off at a tangent o go off the point o disgress

nos estamos desviando del tema

we're getting off the point o going off at a tangent o getting sidetracked

tangent in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for tangent in the English»Spanish Dictionary

tangent [ˈtændʒənt] N

tangent

tangente f

to go off at a tangent

salirse por la tangente

Translations for tangent in the Spanish»English Dictionary

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tangente

tangent

salirse [o irse] por la tangente fig

to go off on a tangent

salirse por peteneras

to go off on a tangent

irse por los cerros de Úbeda inf

to go off on a tangent

irse por las ramas (desviarse)

to go off at Brit [or on Am] a tangent

tangent Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to go off at a tangent

salirse por la tangente

to go off on a tangent

salirse [o irse] por la tangente fig

to go off on a tangent

salirse por peteneras

to go off at Brit [or on Am] a tangent

irse por las ramas (desviarse)

to go off on a tangent

irse por los cerros de Úbeda inf

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

For this reason it is conceived as a creative tangent to an exhibition and an instrument for research.

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If and then each point ("x", "y") has exactly one tangent line to passing through it.

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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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Thus, the problem becomes that of finding a solution line tangent to the two inverted circles, which was solved above.

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Every point in an analytic space has a tangent space.

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

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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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Where the conductors are in a straight line, a tangent tower is used.

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

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Because shape space is curved, analyses are done by projecting shapes onto a space tangent to shape space.

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