tangence

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English

Noun

tangence (countable and uncountable, plural tangences)

Alternative form of tangency
- 1874, L J V. Gerard, The elements of geometry, in eight books; or, First step in applied logic, page 106:
  The points of intangence, or extangence, of two circumferences are the points of tangence of their intangents, or extangents.
- 1957, Canadin Patent Office, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, volume 85, numbers 10-12, page 8721:
  […] to assure the belt passes only through said points of tangence, […] .
- 2006, ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling: Proceedings, page 185:
  The latter enables designers and engineers to describe geometric entities (points, lines, planes, curves, surfaces) by specification of constraints: distances, angles, incidences, tangences between geometric entities.

References

“tangence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Noun

tangence f (plural tangences)

tangency

Further reading

“tangence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

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