Sentence examples for tangent to from inspiring English sources

If Ω is tangent to the base circle (in effect, tangent to the cone), the image will be a parabola.

A is tangent to B, and B is tangent to C. We'll call their tangent points AB and BC.

The ball, the Hawk-Eye review would show, had landed tangent to the line.

Everything in Hill-Gibbins's modern-dress revival exists at a tangent to normality.

This was at a tangent to the glamorous London art world.

And then, mostly at a tangent to the other two, there is the history of terrorism.

An envelope is defined as the curve that is tangent to a given family of curves.

It's circular and presumably ultimately destructive, and our politics is increasingly at a tangent to reality as a result.

Her eyes are at a tangent to her painter, and to us, one looking out, one looking down.

Velocity and acceleration, however, have direction as well as magnitude; velocity is always tangent to the path, while acceleration has two components, one tangent to the path and the other perpendicular to the tangent.

Thus, the difference quotient can be interpreted as instantaneous velocity or as the slope of a tangent to a curve.