Tangential : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Tangential	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tangential adj of superficial relevance if any; "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" Synonym(s): digressive, tangential of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent; "tangential forces"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tangential \Tangen"tial\, a. (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.