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Definition of Tangents
1. tangent [n] - See also: tangent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tangents
Literary usage of Tangents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Conic Sections: Containing an Account of Some of the Most by George Salmon (1879)
"V C" = A//*- Hence, the locus of a point, the sum or difference of whose tangents
to two given circles is constant, is a conic having double contact with ..."
2. A Treatise on the Higher Plane Curves: Intended as a Sequel to A Treatise on by George Salmon (1879)
"And so, in like manner, we can prove that the number of tangents which can be
drawn from a multiple point of the order k is n* — n — k (k + 1). ..."
3. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"A triangle whose vertices are points of a point conic is perspective with the
triangle formed by the tangents at these points, the tangent at any vertex ..."
4. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"The tangents to a point conic form a line conic. If Pv P2, PB, P± are points of
a point conic and pv p2, p3, p± are the tangents to the conic at these ..."
5. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1862)
"These latter double tangents are also plainly double edges ... The inflexional
tangents, however, are also to be regarded as double tangents to the surface: ..."
6. A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus: Containing Differential and Integral by Bartholomew Price (1857)
"Now (f, ?j) in (52) is any point on that tangent which touches the curve at (x,
y); let us suppose (£, ij) to be a fixed point, and tangents to be drawn ..."
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