tangency

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In so doing, we can observe the point of tangency at as shown in Figure 19.

From Textbooks • Dec. 1, 2021

Find parametric equations of the line passing through the origin and the point of tangency.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

“All I could see were these unresolved tangency breaks.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

He then spoke of the opportunities that now exist, if the material permits, to take a more elegant path from one line to another; he talked of tangency breaks and Bézier surfaces.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015

To begin with, he could not decide whether, on their wedding day, there ever had been any real spiritual tangency between them.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.