tangential
میں tangential
definition
adjective
a tangential line
of, relating to, or along a tangent.
example
They are frankly 'tangential' to the drama, and could have been cut from the story altogether without any great loss.
If a log were a perfect cylinder with uniformly thick growth layers, the figure on the surfaces of boards cut in 'tangential' planes would be parallel markings.
The focus of almost the entire chapter is on adolescent childbearing, a topic that I consider somewhat 'tangential' to romance.
A Riemann surface is typical of the case, where you have the intersection of one universe, with the 'tangential' impact of another universe upon it - [that's a] typical Riemannian surface.
He makes the case for the artist as the most influential post-war musical artist, certainly more so than Elvis, who was influential for reasons 'tangential' to the actual music.
Still, the music, though admittedly provocative, almost always plays the role of sonic backdrop to her ridiculous 'tangential' meditations, which ultimately sink the album.
You've got to have a game in your head, you have to have a strategy and you have to know what the points are on the horizon because you get quickly buffeted to run off in 'tangential' ways.
He generally relates the story in chronological fashion, but, like many storytellers, he often stops to present 'tangential' information about a new character or situation.
Thin-sections were made in the transverse, radial, and 'tangential' planes.
His work used a special coordinate system on a surface such as isothermic and 'tangential' coordinates.
If your Web site is only 'tangential' to the success of your business, or if a core business activity is supported by it but not reliant on it, then ultimately the satisfaction of the end user is moot.
Despite a number of 'tangential' references to the shady dealings of American corporations in the Balkans and their connections to organized crime, I have not yet seen a serious and comprehensive analysis of this interesting subject.
Formally then, utility is maximized at the point where the budget line is 'tangential' to an indifference curve.
Barreto did a fair job of explaining the process of making this movie, but he often got sidetracked onto more 'tangential' anecdotes.
The report achieved this balance by transforming a supposedly 'tangential' discussion of national reputation into its central focus.
These innovations remain relatively 'tangential' to the mainstream art museum, however.
Title aside, this is less a book with a single evolving argument than a series of 'tangential' essays.
This leads to a misleading perception that the subject has a lot to do with PDEs, which - while important - are ultimately only a 'tangential' element of the theory and its applications.
The second exception comes into play if the rationale underlying the patent holder's argument bears only a 'tangential' relation to the equivalent.
In Chinese, each different 'tangential' reference to the topic presents the idea from a different indirect perspective; however, the topic is never presented directly in the text or in the conclusion.
This story is 'tangential' to the subject I intended to approach, which is the true subject of my teenage crush.
Second, we have examined perturbations in a normal rather than a 'tangential' direction along the limit cycle.
Alternatively, the struts may have the form of circles or ellipses which lie 'tangential' to both the longitudinal profiles and to each other.
And in a way that seems to be very deeply connected with their central content, not just 'tangential' contact, but into the heart of mathematics.
The skilled person in 1980 would understand that the effect of the frusto-conical cone is to reduce the diameter of the vortex and consequentially increase the 'tangential' velocity of the particles as they pass down the cone?
When we overlay Figure 4.2 onto Figure 4.1, we will see that the budget constraint will be 'tangential' to some I-curves and cut across other I-curves.
He continues to work as an environmental biologist - less 'tangential' to his career as a writer than it might appear.
This may seem 'tangential' to design, but I would argue that the models we use to develop new technologies actually help constitute our experience of the social.
In this case we deal with the situation of a local 'tangential' force applied to the surface of a large body.
However, the literature from this domain is both too large and too 'tangential' to consider in this article.
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