tangential
tangential
definition
adjective
a tangential line
of, relating to, or along a tangent.
example
Thin-sections were made in the transverse, radial, and 'tangential' planes.
However, the literature from this domain is both too large and too 'tangential' to consider in this article.
This story is 'tangential' to the subject I intended to approach, which is the true subject of my teenage crush.
Second, we have examined perturbations in a normal rather than a 'tangential' direction along the limit cycle.
These are all important matters but they are 'tangential' to the most central objectives of school education, namely teaching and learning.
This may seem 'tangential' to design, but I would argue that the models we use to develop new technologies actually help constitute our experience of the social.
So, if planes A and D are tangential, how can planes C and B be 'tangential' ?
The surface of the cap of each fungiform structure is either 'tangential' , or slightly inclined, to the surface of the carapace.
In Chinese, each different 'tangential' reference to the topic presents the idea from a different indirect perspective; however, the topic is never presented directly in the text or in the conclusion.
The second exception comes into play if the rationale underlying the patent holder's argument bears only a 'tangential' relation to the equivalent.
They are frankly 'tangential' to the drama, and could have been cut from the story altogether without any great loss.
The focus of almost the entire chapter is on adolescent childbearing, a topic that I consider somewhat 'tangential' to romance.
Despite a number of 'tangential' references to the shady dealings of American corporations in the Balkans and their connections to organized crime, I have not yet seen a serious and comprehensive analysis of this interesting subject.
In fact, it's often the opposite: Speakers and participants regularly maintain that it's precisely because the event is so 'tangential' to their daily lives that the event is so important to them.
You've got to have a game in your head, you have to have a strategy and you have to know what the points are on the horizon because you get quickly buffeted to run off in 'tangential' ways.
I don't have any suggestions for places, but thought I'd offer some 'tangential' information: there are all kinds of prenatal massages, so make sure you get all the info beforehand.
He generally relates the story in chronological fashion, but, like many storytellers, he often stops to present 'tangential' information about a new character or situation.
The skilled person in 1980 would understand that the effect of the frusto-conical cone is to reduce the diameter of the vortex and consequentially increase the 'tangential' velocity of the particles as they pass down the cone?
In yet another construction, an annular cylinder block supports a pair of opposed weighted lever arms and sample support bushings in 'tangential' contact with a rotor surface.
His work used a special coordinate system on a surface such as isothermic and 'tangential' coordinates.
Reducing pollution is 'tangential' to the argument and simply serves to confuse the principles upon which debate should be based.
If you are located near the very edge of the eclipse track the apparent disks of the Sun and the Moon glide along the same 'tangential' line.
If your Web site is only 'tangential' to the success of your business, or if a core business activity is supported by it but not reliant on it, then ultimately the satisfaction of the end user is moot.
This leads to a misleading perception that the subject has a lot to do with PDEs, which - while important - are ultimately only a 'tangential' element of the theory and its applications.
These innovations remain relatively 'tangential' to the mainstream art museum, however.
Still, the music, though admittedly provocative, almost always plays the role of sonic backdrop to her ridiculous 'tangential' meditations, which ultimately sink the album.
A Riemann surface is typical of the case, where you have the intersection of one universe, with the 'tangential' impact of another universe upon it - [that's a] typical Riemannian surface.
Though 'tangential' to the main thesis, this book also serves as an excellent briefing for the general reader on the often uninspiring and sometimes off-putting technical language of the financial world.
If a log were a perfect cylinder with uniformly thick growth layers, the figure on the surfaces of boards cut in 'tangential' planes would be parallel markings.
He continues to work as an environmental biologist - less 'tangential' to his career as a writer than it might appear.
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