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tangent meaning in Malayalam

തൊടുവര toṭuvara

/ˈtæn.d͡ʒənt/

tangent in Malayalam: തൊടുവര (toṭuvara). In English, tangent means a straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.

Malayalam words for tangent

tangent
തൊടുവര toṭuvara

English meaning of tangent

  1. noun A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.
  2. noun A function of an angle that gives the ratio of the sine to the cosine, in either the real or complex numbers. Symbols: tan, tg.
  3. noun A course suddenly and unexpectedly divergent from one which was previously being followed (especially one embarked on before reaching the end of the previous course).
  4. noun A new topic of discussion unrelated to the one which came before it, arrived at due to a single (peripheral or trivial) point in common with it.

Full definition of tangent

tangent in a sentence

  • I believe we went off onto a tangent when we started talking about monkeys on unicycles at his retirement party.
  • The collision occurred on a two-mile stretch of tangent track.

Synonyms of tangent

tangent in other languages

Questions about tangent in Malayalam

What is the meaning of tangent in Malayalam?
Tangent in Malayalam is തൊടുവര (toṭuvara).
tangent എന്നതിന്റെ മലയാളം അർത്ഥം എന്താണ്?
Tangent: തൊടുവര (toṭuvara).
What does tangent mean in English?
Tangent means a straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.

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Malayalam words from Wiktionary's Malayalam entries whose English meaning is “tangent”: തൊടുവര. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: tangent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Malayalam words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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