tangent
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point
Types & categories
- straight line hypernym
Related & opposite
- tangency derivation
- tangential derivation
Sense 2 noun
ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
Types & categories
- trigonometric function hypernym
Related & opposite
- tangential derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tangency |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tangential |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | straight line |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tangential |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | trigonometric function |