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What does tangential mean?

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Adjective
  1. Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
  2. Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
  3. Only indirectly related.
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Formally then, utility is maximized at the point where the budget line is tangential to an indifference curve.
Alternatively, the struts may have the form of circles or ellipses which lie tangential to both the longitudinal profiles and to each other.
The gas is forced to spiral ever inwards towards the axis of the conical section with increasing tangential velocity.
Predominantly in the tangential walls, primary pit fields of high density are conspicuously labelled by aniline blue staining of callose.
In this case we deal with the situation of a local tangential force applied to the surface of a large body.
The surface of the cap of each fungiform structure is either tangential, or slightly inclined, to the surface of the carapace.

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