Crossword-Solution: TANGENTS
We have 18 clues for the answer “TANGENTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Divergences | 1 answer |
| Touching lines | 1 answer |
| Things to go off on | 1 answer |
| They don't go in circles | 1 answer |
| Sudden digressions. | 1 answer |
| Off-topic ramblings | 1 answer |
| Lines that touch but don't intersect | 1 answer |
| Lines that just touch | 1 answer |
| Irrelevant digressions | 1 answer |
| Conversational digressions | 1 answer |
| Conversational detours | 1 answer |
| Completely different lines of thought | 1 answer |
| Abutting areas | 1 answer |
| Abrupt turnoffs. | 1 answer |
| Geometry lines | 2 answers |
| Digressions | 2 answers |
| Trig functions | 5 answers |
| CITY ON THE BLACK SEA | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TANGENTS (5)
This----” “Tangents? TANGENTS! Let me tell you----” “----isn't a theater-play; it's a serious effort to have us get together on fundamentals.
And he did see it, much too clearly at last! In such a tide of charging and chasing, on that Right Wing and round all the Field in the Prussian rear; in such wide bickering and boiling of Horse-currents,--which fling out, round all the Prussian rear quarters, such a spray of Austrian Hussars for one element,--Maupertuis, I have no doubt, wishes much he were at home, doing his sines and tangents.
Picture a circle surrounded by a bristling mass of tangents, or rather a polygon with its sides extended in all directions.
With the aid of a system of tangents of which I first showed him the rule and the method of construction, my artist has obtained the ordinary cycloid, followed by the interior and the exterior epicycloid and, lastly, the same curves both lengthened and shortened.
The conic section is submitted to algebra, an obstetrical appliance which brings forth the equation; and behold, entreated now in one direction, now in another, the womb of the formula gives birth to the ellipse, the hyperbola, the parabola, their foci, their radius vectors, their tangents, their normals, their conjugate axes, their asymptotes and the rest.
Quotes with TANGENTS (3)
Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one ma…
Other than along certain emotional tangents there was little in the book that felt as if it had actually been lived. It was a fiction produced by someone who knew only fictions, The Tempest as written by isolate Miranda, raised on the romances in her father's library.
FV: Annandale defines 'definition' as "an explanation of the signification of a term." Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as "a statement of the precise meaning of a word." A small, perhaps negligible difference you might think. And neither, would you say, is necessarily more correct than the other? But now look up each of the words comprising each definition, and then the definitions of those definitions, and so on. Some still may only differ slightly, while others ma…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1962–2022).