Definitions for tangential

tangential tan·gen·tial

Spelling: [tan-jen-shuh l]
IPA: /tænˈdʒɛn ʃəl/

Tangential is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 412 anagrams from letters in tangential (aaegilnntt).

Definitions for tangential

adjective

  1. pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
  2. merely touching; slightly connected:
  3. divergent or digressive, as from a subject under consideration:
  4. tending to digress or to reply to questions obliquely.

Origin of tangential

First recorded in 1620-30; tangent + -ial

Examples for tangential

In Fig. 6, F represents the tangential force that tends to cause skidding.

A tangential answer to your question would be, what am I proudest of?

It follows that a line from B to M will always be tangential to the epicycloid.

tangential, a longitudinal plane not including the organic axis.

tangential characters are combined into composites or eliminated entirely; the same holds for certain events.

They are, in short, mountains of elevation, ridged up by tangential thrusts.

The photographs of tangential and radial sections are life size.

From this simple lattice sphere all other Sphroidea can be derived either by radial or by tangential growth.

The tangential needles always seem to have the same shape as I have accurately described, in 1862, of Aulacantha scolymantha.

Once again the idea came from a tangential story she came across researching Unbroken.

Word Value for tangential
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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