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tan·gent
/ ˈtanjənt/
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n.
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a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point, but if extended does not cross it at that point.
∎ fig.
a completely different line of thought or action:
she went off on a tangent about how she and her husband had driven past a department store window.
2.
Math.
the trigonometric function that is equal to the ratio of the sides (other than the hypotenuse) opposite and adjacent to an angle in a right triangle.
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adj.
(of a line or plane) touching, but not intersecting, a curve or curved surface.
DERIVATIVES:
tan·gen·cy
/ -jənsē/ n.
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Tangent's ``Barracuda'' Stops Spam Before It Reaches Your Network -- Enterprise Spam Filtering Solution Kills Spam and Viruses Preemptively.
Business Wire; 5/17/2005; 700+ words
; BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Tangent, Inc. today announced Barracuda Release...market that operate inside the network. Tangent, which has provided technology solutions...Doug Monsour, President and CEO of Tangent. "There's no software or hardware...
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Tangent Announces VITA All-In-One Flat Panel Touch Screen LCD PC for the Health Care Industry; Space Saving LCD PC Designed for IT Professionals, Doctors, Dentists, Hospital Administrators and Other Health Care Workers.
Business Wire; 9/28/2005; 700+ words
; BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Tangent, Inc., today announced VITA, a...office or a hospital environment. The Tangent VITA has been designed with many features...and patients," said Mike Zabaneh, Tangent Vice President of Marketing. "Combined...
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Tangent Computer, Inc. Contracts IBM To Enhance Its Product Service and Support.
Business Wire; 4/19/2000; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2000 Tangent Computer, Inc. today announced it has...Services to help service and support for Tangent Computer products. According to the agreement...site technical support and maintenance of Tangent PCs, workstations, and servers. "Along...
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Tangent Launches DataCove Hosted Email Archival Service.
PR Newswire; 9/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...Calif., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Tangent, Inc., a leading provider of innovative...in force in the United States alone. "Tangent's hosted email archival service brings...email archival," said Edward Alexei, Tangent's vice president of IT solutions...
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Tangent's Spam Filtering and Network Migration Products Named ''Cream-of-the-Crop Products'' for Education; Tangent Wins Award Competing Against Hundreds of Education Products in Annual Awards Competition Sponsored by Media & Methods Magazine.
Business Wire; 7/26/2005; 685 words
; BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Tangent, Inc., a leading developer of security...excellence in the field of education. Tangent's products competed with hundreds...who served as judges. In evaluating Tangent's Spam Filtering solution, judges...
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Tangent Rail Acquires Four Rail Products and Services Companies; Tangent Rail Now Operates Select RailWorks Subsidiaries.
Business Wire; 10/19/2005; 700+ words
; PITTSBURGH -- Tangent Rail Corporation announced today the...With headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pa., Tangent Rail is a leading provider of maintenance...and services to the railroad industry. Tangent Rail was formed by PNC Equity Partners...
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Tangent Unveils Ergonomic All-in-One Flat Panel LCD PC; Pendant LCDPC-7500 Packs an Entire PC Inside the Display.
Business Wire; 9/1/2005; 697 words
; BURLINGAME, Calif. -- Tangent, Inc., today announced the Tangent Pendant LCDPC-7500, an ergonomic, feature-rich...chassis that ensures a heat-free environment. The new Tangent system, which is easily upgradeable and can be serviced...
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Tangent Computer Announces Web-Based, Thin Client Solution Designed Specifically to Meet the Needs of Education and Government.
Business Wire; 7/20/1999; 700+ words
; ...to Bring Technology Into the Classroom Tangent Computer Inc. today announced the availability...teachers, students and administrators. The Tangent eduPort connects to Internets and intranets...administration on the user side. The Tangent eduPort allows classrooms to obtain more...
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Tangent Computer Announces Desktop & Server Support for Pentium III; Medallion, MediaGem, ProServ Lines Support Intel's New CPU.
Business Wire; 1/19/1999; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 1999--Tangent Computer today announced it will offer...speeds running at 450MHz and 500MHz. Tangent desktop PCs that will support the new...99 include the Medallion and MediaGem. Tangent Computer's line of Xeon-based servers...
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Tangent MultiServer M433MS. (Tangent Computers Inc.'s file server) (Hardware Review) (one of three evaluations of disk arrays in Big Iron Goes Direct) (Evaluation)
Magazine article from: Computer Shopper; 7/1/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...throughput for a wide range of users, Tangent's MultiServer is the network file server...four 339Mb Seagate SCSI hard drives, and Tangent's EISA drive-array configuration software...power switch and the drives. Inside the Tangent's case is a 450-watt power supply...
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tangent
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
tangent in mathematics. 1 In geometry, the tangent to a circle or sphere is a straight line that intersects...one and only one point. For other curves and surfaces the tangent line at a given point P is defined as the limiting position...
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Calculus
Book article from: Mathematics
...derivative is also useful for finding a tangent line to a given curve at a specific point. A tangent line is a straight line that touches a curve...to a very small region. An example of a tangent line to a curve is shown in the figure...
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map projection
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...wrapped as a cylinder around the globe, tangent to it along the equator. Light comes...cone is placed on a globe like a hat, tangent to it at some parallel, and a point source...polyconic projection uses various cones tangent to the globe at different parallels...
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Geometry, Spherical
Book article from: Mathematics
...one point only is called a tangent line. An infinite plane can...the plane is also considered tangent to the sphere at that point...the floor would represent a tangent plane because it intersects...defined as the angle between the tangents to the two great circle arcs...
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differential geometry
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...then t = d r / ds is a unit tangent vector to the curve at r...curve is another curve whose tangents are the normals to the original...plane are straight lines. Tangent and normal vectors are also...whole circle of unit vectors tangent to it at a given point...
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