Crossword-Solution: TANGENCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tangency | n. | The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “TANGENCY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| State of being in contact. | 1 answer |
| the state of being tangent | 1 answer |
| APPOSITION | 10 answers |
| Contact | 40 answers |
| ABUTMENT | 42 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TANGENCY (5)
The trading-posts, which the Chinese emperors had permitted foreigners to open as far north as Ningpo, were closed, and only one point of tangency was allowed to remain--the above-mentioned Factories at Canton, a spot, as we shall see, large enough to admit of the spreading of a "magic carpet." Foreign trade was at that time insignificant, in comparison with the enormous expansion which it has now attained.
Lift the handle and force the cutting edge into the wood; at the same time push the chisel forward to keep it at the proper tangency.
While in his social relations the young man is seeking points of tangency with those in his own plane, in his religious experience he seeks to come into relation with his God; that is, with the power that exists in the plane above his own.
See Tractor.] (Geom.) Defn: A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.
The first assertion is practically that of tangency,--"will fall outside the circle." The second one states, substantially, that there is only one such tangent, or, as we say in modern mathematics, the tangent is unique.
Quotes with TANGENCY (1)
The skin is a variety of contingency: in it, through it, with it, the world and my body touch each other, the feeling and the felt, it defines their common edge. Contingency means common tangency: in it the world and the body intersect and caress each other. I do not wish to call the place in which I live a medium, I prefer to say that things mingle with each other and that I am no exception to that. I mix with the world which mixes with me. Skin intervenes between several th…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1962).