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Definitions: Tangential |
TangentialAdjective1. Of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark. 2. Of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent; "tangential forces". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tangential" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1919. (references) |
Synonym: TangentialSynonym: digressive (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contiguity | Adjective: contiguous; touching; Verb: in contact; Noun: conterminous, end to end, osculatory; pertingent; tangential. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tangential |
| English words defined with "tangential": digressive ♦ line of force ♦ Tangental, Tangential force. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tangential": Couette flow ♦ free-vortex compressor ♦ hairy ball, Hartman's line ♦ isotropic turbulence ♦ Lüder's line ♦ Meander Belt, molecular drag gage ♦ radial pore multiple, radio horizon, rose of cracks ♦ S wave, slip band, stress tensor ♦ tangential acceleration, tangential fade, tangential fan, tangential feed, tangential key, tangential point, tangential scheme, tangential stress, tangential wavepath, torsional strength, torso-arm reference line ♦ viscous force. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tangential" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (tangential). |
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Alfred Jarry | God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. |
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Civil Liberties | Hong Kong | Human rights groups noted that the Government was not reviewing the tax-exempt status of progovernment NGO's that participated in similar public activities tangential to their main purpose. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tangential" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tangential" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 63 | 42,364 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tangential": be tangential to ♦ tangential acceleration ♦ tangential fade ♦ tangential fan ♦ tangential feed ♦ Tangential force ♦ tangential key ♦ tangential plane ♦ tangential point ♦ tangential scheme ♦ tangential stress. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tangential": tangential-cut, tangential-sawn. | |
Ending with "tangential": earth-tangential. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tangential | 6 |
tangential flow filtration | 3 |
fan tangential | 3 |
acceleration tangential | 3 |
tangential velocity | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tangential"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tangjencial. (various references) | |
Arabic | مماسي, تماسي (tangent). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тангенциален, отклоняващ се (devious, divergent, excursive, variant), периферен (circumferential, marginal, peripheral, suburban). (various references) | |
Chinese | 正切 (tangent, tangents). (various references) | |
Czech | dotýkající se. (various references) | |
Danish | tangentialkraft (tangential force), tangentgade (tangential street), tangential fading (tangential fade), tangentialarm (tangential arm), tangentvej (tangential road), tangentialskud (tangential wound), tangentialspænding (tangential stress), tangentialstyring (tangential guides, tangential guiding), tangentialt spindeldrev på ringspindemaskine (tangential spindles drive of a ring spinning frame), tangentialtilspænding (parallel feed, tangential feed), tangentialventilator (cross-flow fan, tangential fan), tangentiel last (tangential load), tangential kile (tangential key), broende (tangential shaft), strejfsaar (glancing wound, tangential wound), randgade (tangential street), planskaaret (back-cut, back-sawn, bastard-sawn, crown-cut, flat-grain, flat-sawed, flat-sawn, live-sawn, plain-grain, plain-sawn, sawn-alive, sawn-on-the-back, slash-grain, slash-sawn, tangential-cut, tangential-sawn), parallel tilspænding (parallel feed, tangential feed). (various references) | |
Dutch | tangentiële put (tangential shaft), tangentiële geleiding (tangential guides, tangential guiding), tangentiale arm (tangential arm), tangentiële spanning (tangential stress), tangentiële straat (tangential street), tangentiële verdwijning (tangential fade), tangentiële weg (tangential road), tangentiaalkracht (tangential force), tangentiaalspie (tangential key), tangentiale aanzet (tangential feed), tangentiële belasting (tangential load), dosse gezaagd (back-cut, back-sawn, bastard-sawn, crown-cut, flat-grain, flat-sawed, flat-sawn, live-sawn, plain-grain, plain-sawn, sawn-alive, sawn-on-the-back, slash-grain, slash-sawn, tangential-cut, tangential-sawn), stoken d.m.v.tangentiële stookinrichting (tangential firing), schram (abrasion, glancing wound, scratch, tangential wound), schampschot (ricochet wound, tangential wound), schaafwonde (glancing wound, tangential wound), raakpunt (tangential point), parallelbeweging (parallel feed, tangential feed), dwarsstroomventilator (cross-flow fan, tangential fan). (various references) | |
Finnish | tangenttikiila (tangential key), tangentiaalivoima (tangential force), tangentiaalipuhallin (cross-flow fan, tangential fan), tangentiaalinen syöttö (tangential feed), tangentiaalinen kuorma (tangential load), tangentiaalinen häipyminen (tangential fade), sivuajasyöttö (tangential feed), sivuajakiila (tangential key), rengaskehruukoneen tangentiaalinen värttinänkäyttö (tangential spindles drive of a ring spinning frame). (various references) | |
French | tangentiel. (various references) | |
German | tangential. (various references) | |
Greek | εφαπτομένησ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | משיקי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tangens (tangent), érintõ. (various references) | |
Italian | tangenziale (back-cut, back-sawn, bastard-sawn, crown-cut, flat-grain, flat-sawed, flat-sawn, live-sawn, plain-grain, plain-sawn, sawn-alive, sawn-on-the-back, slash-grain, slash-sawn, tangential street, tangential-cut, tangential-sawn), marginale (borderline, by, marginal, ornamental, peripheral). (various references) | |
Korean | ||
Manx | tanjentagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | angentialtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tangente (tan, tangent), tangencial (tangent). (various references) | |
Romanian | tangenţial. (various references) | |
Russian | тангенциальный (skew). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tangencijalni, koji dodiruje. (various references) | |
Spanish | tangencial (oblique). (various references) | |
Swedish | tangentiell, perifer (peripheral, tangent). (various references) | |
Turkish | teğetsel, teğet (tangent), tanjanta ait, yüzeysel (cosmetic, shallow, skin deep, superficial, surface). (various references) | |
Ukranian | спрямований по дотичній до певної кривої, тангенціальний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiếp tuyến (tangent). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tangential": tangentially. (additional references) | |
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"Tangential" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anogenital, tangenital, tangentil, transential. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tangential" (pronounced tanje"nkhul) |
| 5 | -e" n kh u l | consequential, credential, deferential, differential, existential, exponential, inconsequential, influential, nonessential, preferential, presidential, providential, prudential, residential, reverential, sequential, torrential. |
| 4 | -n kh u l | circumstantial, insubstantial, substantial. |
| 3 | -kh u l | bestial, celestial, hatchel, nuptial. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: galantine. | |
-2 letters: agential, alginate, gantline, latening, nettling, tailgate. | |
-3 letters: agitate, alanine, aneling, anginal, anlagen, anteing, antigen, atingle, eanling, elating, gantlet, gelatin, genital, gentian, leaning, letting, netting, tangent, tannage, tannate, tenting, tetanal. | |
-4 letters: agnail, agnate, aiglet, alanin, angina, anlage, anneal, anting, attain, eating, entail, galena, gannet, gelant, gelati, genial, gentil, ingate, innate, intent, lanate, latent, latten, lattin, ligate, linage, linnet, litten, natant, taenia, talent, tangle, tenail, tenant, tineal, tingle. | |
-5 letters: again, agate, agent, agile, aglet, alane, alang, alant, alate, algae, algin, alien, align, aline, anent, angel, angle, anile, annal, antae, atilt, elain, elint, entia, galea, giant, glean, glint, inane, ingle, inlet, lagan, lanai, laten, latte, leant, legit, liana, liane, liang, ligan, linen, linga, natal, taiga, taint, telia, tenia, tinea, tinge, titan, title. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-l-n-n-t-t" | |
+1 letter: alternating. | |
+2 letters: tangentially. | |
+3 letters: intercalating, retranslating. | |
+4 letters: gelatinization. | |
+5 letters: antiegalitarian, cyanoethylating, gelatinizations, interrogational, intransigeantly, investigational, transliterating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6E 67 65 6E 74 69 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -. --. . -. - .. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a n g e n t i a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006E 0067 0065 006E 0074 0069 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54678073718086756778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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