tangent

1. Irrelevant.

2. Making contact at a single point or along a line; touching but not intersecting.

3. Meeting a curve or surface in a single point if a sufficiently small interval is considered.

4. Having a common tangent line at a point.

5. Having a common tangent plane at a point.

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1. A line, curve, or surface meeting another line, curve, or surface at a common point and sharing a common tangent line or tangent plane at that point.

2. A sudden digression or change of course: went off on a tangent during the courtroom argument.

3. Mathematics The trigonometric function of an acute angle in a right triangle that is the ratio of the length of the side opposite the angle to the length of the side adjacent to the angle.

4. Music An upright pin in a keyboard instrument, especially in a clavichord, that rises to sound a string when a key is depressed and stops the string at a preset length to set the pitch.

5. The trigonometric function that for an acute angle is the ratio between the leg opposite to the angle when it is considered part of a right triangle and the leg adjacent.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
tangent	8	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
ag	3
te	2
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ne	2
na	2
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en	2
an	2
at	2

3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
get	4
net	3
neg	4
nan	3
nag	4
nae	3
age	4
tan	3
tat	3
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gen	4
gat	4
gan	4
gae	4
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eta	3
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eat	3
ant	3
ate	3
tae	3
att	3

4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
geta	5
tang	5
tate	4
teat	4
tent	4
nett	4
neat	4
gnat	5
gent	5
gate	5
gane	5
gaen	5
etna	4
ante	4

5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
anent	5
agent	6

6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
gannet	7
tenant	6

7 Letters	Scrabble® Points
tangent	8