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tangencies

tangencies is the plural 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

Questions about tangencies

What is tangencies the plural of?
Tangencies is the plural of tangency.

Words near tangencies in the dictionary

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

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