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Definition of Tangencies
1. tangency [n] - See also: tangency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tangencies
Literary usage of Tangencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archæology of the United States by Samuel Foster Haven (1856)
"THE tangencies OF SPHERES. Upon examining the question, How many problems are
possible in the tangencies of spheres? I find there are fifteen, ..."
2. Self-examinations in Euclid by John Martin Frederick Wright (1829)
"ON tangencies. JL HE general Problem of tangencies (see ... The tangencies are
preceded by a number of Problems, ..."
3. The Elements of Descriptive Geometry: Shadows and Perspective. With a Brief by Samuel Edward Warren (1877)
"... —tangencies. 14. Conceive a straight line tangent to a sphere at a point.
Let the centre of the sphere recede from this tangent along the radius of the ..."
4. The Elements of Descriptive Geometry, Shadows and Perspective: Shadows and by Samuel Edward Warren (1877)
"B—tangencies. PROBLEM XC.—To construct a plane through a given line and tangent
to an ellipsoid of three unequal axes. In Space. ..."
5. Euclid Revised: Containing the Essentials of the Elements of Plane Geometry by Euclid (1890)
"... SECTION v—"THE tangencies." Given in position any three of the following
nine—three points, three lines, three circles of fixed magnitude—it is required ..."
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