TANGENT in a Sentence
Learn TANGENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for TANGENT, such as:
1. Please stop flying off at tangents, Carrie.
2. One moment the professor is working hard on a problem in physics, the next he's gone off at a tangent and he's talking about bees.
2. One moment the professor is working hard on a problem in physics, the next he's gone off at a tangent and he's talking about bees.
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Meanings and Examples of TANGENT
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tangent
n. a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point
n. ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
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Example Sentence:
1 One moment the professor is working hard on a problem in physics, the next he's gone off at a tangent and he's talking about bees.