Crossword-Solution: TANGENT 7 letters, 47 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Tangent v. t. A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that
portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the
point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example,
the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See
Trigonometrical function, under Function.
Tangent a. Touching; touching at a single point
Tangent a. meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that
point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight
line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent
to a surface; tangent surfaces.

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TANGENT anagram GANNETT

We have 47 clues for the answer “TANGENT”

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Not the main point 1 answer
Conversation digression 1 answer
Conversational detour 1 answer
Conversational divergence 1 answer
Deviating course. 1 answer
Divergent course 1 answer
Go off on a __ (digress) 1 answer
Going off on a __ (digressing) 1 answer
It doesn't go in circles 1 answer
Kind of line, in geometry. 1 answer
LINE touching curve at only one point 1 answer
Line touching curve at one point 1 answer
CURVE touching a line 1 answer
Right triangle calculation 1 answer
STRAIGHT line touching a curve 1 answer
Speaker's sudden change of course 1 answer
Straight line just touching a curve 1 answer
Sudden digression 1 answer
Sudden divergence from one course to another. 1 answer
TOUCH at one point 1 answer
Trigonomic function 1 answer
You may go off on one in a discussion 1 answer
line that touches a curve without intersecting it 1 answer
Curve toucher 1 answer
Abrupt digression 1 answer
A new and unexpected tack. 1 answer
1, for 45° 1 answer
"But I digress" prompter 1 answer
Speaker's digression 2 answers
Circle line 3 answers
Trigonometry ratio 3 answers
Geometry line 5 answers
Trig calculation 6 answers
Trigonometric function 6 answers
AVAILABLE FOR TOUCHING BASE ON FRIDAY 10 answers
ALMOST TOUCHING 10 answers
A DIGRESSION INTO IRRELEVANT DETAILS 11 answers
Ratio 12 answers
Math term 19 answers
Trig function 21 answers
deflection 45 answers
contiguous 54 answers
Abutting 57 answers
Digression 59 answers
Touching 75 answers
Meeting 84 answers
Divergence 84 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with TANGENT (5)

But he welcomed the tangent conversa- tions that invariably resulted when he tried to explain how the VCR could record one channel and yes mom, you can watch another channel at the same time.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Her searching enquiries about a play whose production, on one of the latter scenes, had provoked a considerable amount of scandal, led Darrow to throw out laughingly: “To see THAT you’ll have to wait till you’re married!” and his answer had sent her off at a tangent.
The Reef Edith Wharton 1995
Miss, construing my remarks further than even I intended, flew off in a tangent of female dignity and reserve, like a mounting lark in an April morning; and wrote me an answer which measured out very completely what an immense way I had to travel before I could reach the climate of her favours.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
Fitzpiers continued to regard the nearing picture, till at length their glances met for a moment, when she demurely sent off hers at a tangent and gave him the benefit of her three-quarter face, while with courteous completeness of conduct he lifted his hat in a large arc.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1996
You see the European war has called for the use of a large number of aeroplanes, and as the pilots of them frequently have to fight, and so can not give their whole attention to the machines, some form of automatic stabilizer is needed to prevent them turning turtle, or going off at a wrong tangent.
Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders Victor Appleton 2002

Quotes with TANGENT (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…
Richard Feynman Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the objective consideration just discussed, for I shall be able to express it only by image and simile. Why is our consciousness brighter and more distinct the farther it reaches outwards, so that its greatest clearness lies in sense perception, which already half belongs to things outside us; and, on the other hand, becomes more obscure as we go inwards, and lead…
Arthur Schopenhauer
Talk about getting off tangent. My mother's friend may have just killed his wife and my parents are sitting there talking about cows.
Wendy Lichtman Secrets, Lies, and Algebra
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 44 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).