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Tangential   /tændʒˈɛntʃəl/   Listen
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Tangential  adj.  (Geom.) Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.
Tangential force (Mech.), a force which acts on a moving body in the direction of a tangent to the path of the body, its effect being to increase or diminish the velocity; distinguished from a normal force, which acts at right angles to the tangent and changes the direction of the motion without changing the velocity.
Tangential stress. (Engin.) See Shear, n., 3.






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"Tangential" Quotes from Famous Books



... aluminum, a, gives, in the usual manner, a reflected image upon a scale, thus allowing the deflections to be read. A compensating magnet, M, is supported by a vertical column fixed to the case, above the needles. This magnet may be placed in the different azimuths by means of a tangential screw, t. The extremities of the bobbin wires are connected with three terminals, T, T', T squared, and the instrument may, by a proper arrangement, became differential. These terminals, as well as the communicating wires, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various



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