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tangented

tangented is the simple past and past participle of tangent.

Meaning of tangent

Verb

tangent (third-person singular simple present tangents, present participle tangenting, simple past and past participle tangented)

  1. (informal, intransitive, rare) Synonym of fly off at a tangent (“to digress from a topic”).
    • OK. Did that have anything to do with what I was saying? I just wanna know if you're tangenting or making an oblique connection I'm missing.1999 August 12, Robin Lee Powell, “Are WOMEN the SUPERIOR GENDER?”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet)

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Phrases with tangented

Questions about tangented

What is tangented the simple past and past participle of?
Tangented is the simple past and past participle of tangent.

Words near tangented in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tangented (page history and authors); tangent (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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