TANGENTIAL FORCE

Definition: TANGENTIAL FORCE

TANGENTIAL FORCE

1. (Mech.), a force which acts on a moving body in the direction of a tangent to the path of the body, its effect being to increase or diminish the velocity; -- distinguished from a normal force, which acts at right angles to the tangent and changes the direction of the motion without changing the velocity.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definitions: TANGENTIAL FORCE

Domain	Definitions
Mechanical Engineering	Component of the resultant cutting force in tangential direction. Source: European Union. (references)
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Modern Translations: TANGENTIAL FORCE

Language		Translations for "TANGENTIAL FORCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		tangentialkraft. (various references)

Dutch		tangentiaalkracht. (various references)

Finnish		tangentiaalivoima. (various references)

French		effort tangentiel (tangential stress). (various references)

German		Tangentialkraft. (various references)

Greek		εφαπτομενική δύναμη κοπής. (various references)

Pig Latin		angentialtay orcefay.(various references)

Swedish		tangentialkraft, huvudskärkraft. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TANGENTIAL FORCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-f-g-i-l-n-n-o-r-t-t"
	-3 letters: antielectron, conferential, generational.
	-4 letters: altercating, altercation, alternating, alternation, conflagrant, crenelation, fractionate, freelancing, intercalate, intolerance, nonliterate, recantation, teratogenic.
	-5 letters: alteration, arctangent, catenating, catenation, clattering, conflating, congenital, corelating, electroing, entreating, flattening, flattering, fractional, generation, interocean, intolerant, lacerating, laceration, negational, recleaning, reenacting, reflecting, reflection, refloating, relegation, relocating, tangential, tetracaine, tetragonal, tolerating, tractional.
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