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tangential

/tan-jen-shuhl/US // tænˈdʒɛn ʃəl //UK // (tænˈdʒɛnʃəl) //

切向,切向的,切线,切向性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or of the nature of a tangent; being or moving in the direction of a tangent.
    • : merely touching; slightly connected: tangential information.
    • : divergent or digressive, as from a subject under consideration: tangential remarks.
    • : tending to digress or to reply to questions obliquely.

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Examples

  • The rumor about Alfa Bank that never amounted to anything was, at best, tangential.

  • However, the decision does affirm the Supreme Court’s recognition of the importance of “vigorous enforcement of the antitrust laws in maintaining a competitive economy,” as Rifkin says, which could have some tangential impacts on other cases.

  • The show is so tangential to their fame now, which exists largely on social media and in their entrepreneurial ventures, that it doesn’t have anything new to say.

  • Sprinkled throughout the film are some tangential insights in the commercial life of a truffle after it’s been plucked out of the ground.

  • A tangential answer to your question would be, what am I proudest of?

  • Tangential characters are combined into composites or eliminated entirely; the same holds for certain events.

  • Once again the idea came from a tangential story she came across researching Unbroken.

  • “Many view the straw poll as almost tangential to all the happenings of CPAC,” said Republican political consultant Brian Donahue.

  • Four tangential slots (C) are cut into the perimeter of the pulley (B), and in each is a hardened steel roller (D).

  • He was positive there had been another section on top, shooting off at an angle, representing a problem in tangential stress.

  • He ran off tangential to orbit at escape velocity on a pattern that would probably run in a straight path to infinity.

  • But if it cannot get free, it is compelled to leave each new tangential direction, as soon as it has taken it.

  • In this escapement as delineated there is perfect tangential locking.