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tangentally

tangentally is the dated form of tangentially.

Meaning of tangentially

Adverb

tangentially (comparative more tangentially, superlative most tangentially)

  1. In a tangential manner or direction.
    • Rift sawn planks shrink about one half of those cut tangentially, due to the restraining action of medullary rays. Also, rift sawn timber gives a harder wearing surface than the other and hence these may be used in flooring and other locations subjected to abrasive actions.2003, . B.C. Punmia, Ashok Kumar Jain, & Arun Kr. Jain, Basic Civil Engineering, →ISBN, page 79

Forms of tangentally

comparativemore tangentally
superlativemost tangentally

Origin of tangentally

From tangental + -ly.

Questions about tangentally

What is tangentally the dated form of?
Tangentally is the dated form of tangentially.

Words near tangentally in the dictionary

  1. tangent plane
  2. tangent planes
  3. tangent space
  4. tangent spaces
  5. tangental
  6. tangentally
  7. tangented
  8. tangented off
  9. tangential
  10. tangential triangle
  11. tangential velocities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tangentally (page history and authors); tangentially (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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