Tangents is valid Scrabble Word

Is tangents a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is tangents valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
12 points in WWF

Definitions for TANGENTS in dictionary:

NOUN:

TANGENT, a line that touches a curve
a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point, but if extended does not cross it at that point.
a completely different line of thought or action
the trigonometric function that is equal to the ratio of the sides (other than the hypotenuse) opposite and adjacent to an angle in a right-angled triangle.

ADJECTIVE:

(of a line or plane) touching, but not intersecting, a curve or curved surface

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a straight line in contact with a curve at one point

Words related to TANGENTS

tangent8

Words that contain TANGENTS

cotangents13 arctangents14 subtangents14

How to use TANGENTS in a sentence

If our Villagers run off at tangents on occasion, follow a few false gods and tie the cosmos into knots, it is, one may take it, rather to their credit than otherwise.
On the shelf was a slate scrabbled all over with geometrical figures, and one of these figures was a parabola with two tangents drawn touching.
These tangents cut off the proper length of the string, and made it sound at the same time.
In 1676 Newton had communicated to Leibnitz the fact that he had discovered a general method of drawing tangents, concealing the method in two sentences of transposed characters.

Similar words containing TANGENT without suffix s

tangent8 cotangent12 tangental10 arctangent13 cotangents13 subtangent13 tangential11 arctangents14 subtangents14 tangentally15 cotangential15 tangentially16 tangentiality17 tangentialities16

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