Tangent is valid Scrabble Word

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

7 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for TANGENT in dictionary:

VERB:

A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.

NOUN:

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.
line that touches a curve without intersecting it
a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point
ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle

ADJECTIVE:

(of a line or plane) touching, but not intersecting, a curve or curved surface
Touching; touching at a single point

meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a straight line in contact with a curve at one point

Words related to TANGENT

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How to use TANGENT in a sentence

I felt as though I were about to fly off, at some immense tangent, into an outer space hitherto unknown even in dreams.
Flung at a tangent against the wall, she fell at the foot of the couch where Fergus slept.
But she welcomed any tangent of nonsense that set the right key for the coincidence of their meeting.
For the first two miles out of Morfe the trap charged, scattering men and beasts before it and taking the curves of the road at a tangent.
The tangent to the arc at A, from which this deflection is measured, is omitted in this figure to avoid confusion.
Sometimes Selkirk, leaving his companions in the midst of their bottles and glasses, would describe a tangent towards the counter, and come to converse with the pretty hostess.
Instead it crossed the river bridge and went off at a foolish tangent, disappearing over the crest of a hill.
There in the forest to the south where the river curved off at a tangent and flowed directly east, Brian had had his camp.
The sight of the key upon the table sent his thoughts flying off at a tangent.
Round and round the mill he flew, keeping the outside stock from flying off at a tangent, and soothing and quieting the beasts nearest to him with his voice.

Nevertheless, this usually well-endowed human being at a certain point in his career goes off at a tangent and spends the rest of his life in the pursuit of a phantom.
The Reds, therefore, try to dodge the question at issue by leading their opponents off on a tangent.
Flying off at a tangent is probably one of the gravest dangers and certainly the one most constantly present, in this enterprise of prophecy.
A bullet struck the stove and went off at a tangent through the tent canvas not two feet from where Sheba stood.
Then her thoughts went off at a tangent and she saw her class-room, where new things were being taught, and new marks gained.
Perhaps the result of these two influences would be a line that would become a tangent.
You may be just tangent for a minute, and then go off into space on your own account.
The girl we live with has formed other views for herself, and is going off at a tangent.
The boundary was an arc of a circle described around the town of Newcastle, with a given radius, and a meridian line tangent thereto.
My thoughts never strike a plane surface, but always a spherical, and fly off in a tangent.
EAB, the angle between the chord and the tangent, read direct on the graduated edge.
Walk along the tangent until a rod set up at some point in the tangent, say E, is seen in coincidence with a rod set up at B.
If the eye piece be pointed up or down hill, the instrument is thrown a little to one side or other of the tip of the staff, but in a plane tangent to the circle.
My thought went off at a tangent when I reached that point of my reflection.
Sometimes they would dart at a tangent to hover in another place.
If, at this moment, the whole material universe, except the bob, were abolished, it would move for ever in the direction of a tangent to the middle of the arc described.
The mixed grains are cast on this disk, pass to the edge, and are hurled off at a tangent.

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