What (who) is tangent$93476$ - definition
VECTOR SPACE ASSOCIATED TO A POINT IN A SMOOTH MANIFOLD, CONSISTING OF VECTORS TANGENT TO IT (IN SOME EMBEDDING INTO EUCLIDEAN SPACE)
Tangent spaces; Tangent Space; Planar tangent
tangency
TERM IN MATHEMATICS; STRAIGHT LINE TOUCHING A POINT IN A CURVE
Tangent line; Tangent plane; Point of tangency; Tangential; Tangent (geometry); Tangent line problem; Tangent problem; Tangent point; Tangentially; Tangency; Tangent Line; Tangents; Surface tangent; Tangent plane (geometry)
n.
Contact, touching.
tangential
TERM IN MATHEMATICS; STRAIGHT LINE TOUCHING A POINT IN A CURVE
Tangent line; Tangent plane; Point of tangency; Tangential; Tangent (geometry); Tangent line problem; Tangent problem; Tangent point; Tangentially; Tangency; Tangent Line; Tangents; Surface tangent; Tangent plane (geometry)
adj. (formal)
incidental
tangential to
tangent
TERM IN MATHEMATICS; STRAIGHT LINE TOUCHING A POINT IN A CURVE
Tangent line; Tangent plane; Point of tangency; Tangential; Tangent (geometry); Tangent line problem; Tangent problem; Tangent point; Tangentially; Tangency; Tangent Line; Tangents; Surface tangent; Tangent plane (geometry)
a.
Touching.
Wikipedia
Tangent space
In mathematics, the tangent space of a manifold generalizes to higher dimensions the notion of tangent planes to surfaces in three dimensions and tangent lines to curves in two dimensions. In the context of physics the tangent space to a manifold at a point can be viewed as the space of possible velocities for a particle moving on the manifold.
