Sentence examples for tangency from inspiring English sources

All I could see were these unresolved tangency breaks".

(The three-circle tangency construction, one of the most extensively studied geometric problems, has attracted more than 100 different solutions in the modern period).

He then spoke of the opportunities that now exist, if the material permits, to take a more elegant path from one line to another; he talked of tangency breaks and Bézier surfaces.

At the moment of tangency they smash head on.

For example, Euclid in Book III shows how to draw a circle so as to pass through three given points or to be tangent to three given lines; Apollonius (in a work called Tangencies, which no longer survives) found the circle tangent to three given circles, or tangent to any combination of three points, lines, and circles.

Indeed, much of his work books like the Tangencies, the Vergings (or Inclinations), and the Plane Loci, now lost but amply described by Pappus turns on the project of setting out the domain of planar constructions in relation to solutions by other means.

Information still spreads through direct contact — the "ordinary" way; it's just that we need to adjust to that contact being via the tangencies of abutting universes.

For instance, "Tangencies" embraced the following general problem: given three things, each of which may be a point, straight line, or circle, construct a circle tangent to the three.