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tangence

tangence is the alternative form of tangency.

Meaning of tangency

Noun

tangency (countable and uncountable, plural tangencies)

  1. The state of being tangent; an instance of (something) being tangent.
    • In this section we will apply the concept of connectedness in dimension d to study tangencies of algebraic varieties.1999, H. Flenner, L. O′Carroll, W. Vogel, Joins and Intersections, page 131

Forms of tangence

pluraltangences

Questions about tangence

What is tangence the alternative form of?
Tangence is the alternative form of tangency.

Words near tangence in the dictionary

  1. Tangeman
  2. Tangemans
  3. tangemon
  4. tangemons
  5. tangena
  6. tangence
  7. tangences
  8. tangencies
  9. tangency
  10. tangent
  11. tangent bundle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tangence (page history and authors); tangency (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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