tangential

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.

   “The meteor came in on a tangential orbit and exploded about 8 or 10 miles above the earth's surface, just south of the Arctic Circle.”

2. sıfat Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.

   “The archoplasm divides and forms a very large spindle which first lies tangential to the surface of the nucleus.”

3. sıfat Only indirectly related.

   “That subject is tangential to our discussion, and we cannot let it distract us.”