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• tangent — index close (near), proximate, tangential Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• law of Laplace — law of La·place lä pläs n a law in physics that in medicine is applied in the physiology of blood flow: under equilibrium conditions the pressure tangent to the circumference of a vessel storing or transmitting fluid equals the product of the… …   Medical dictionary

• Law of cosines — This article is about the law of cosines in Euclidean geometry. For the cosine law of optics, see Lambert s cosine law. Figure 1 – A triangle. The angles α, β, and γ are respectively opposite the sides a, b, and c …   Wikipedia

• Tangent measure — In measure theory, tangent measures are used to study the local behavior of Radon measures, in much the same way as tangent spaces are used to study the local behavior of differentiable manifolds. Tangent measures are a useful tool in geometric… …   Wikipedia

• tangent — /tan jeuhnt/, adj. 1. in immediate physical contact; touching. 2. Geom. a. touching at a single point, as a tangent in relation to a curve or surface. b. in contact along a single line or element, as a plane with a cylinder. 3. tangential (def.… …   Universalium

• Law of cosines (spherical) — In spherical trigonometry, the law of cosines (also called the cosine rule for sides) is a theorem relating the sides and angles of spherical triangles, analogous to the ordinary law of cosines from plane trigonometry.Given a unit sphere, a… …   Wikipedia

• law of tangents — a law in plane trigonometry: in any plane triangle the tangent of one half the difference of any two angles is to the tangent of one half their sum as the difference of the sides opposite the respective angles is to the sum of those sides …   Useful english dictionary

• Law of tangents — In trigonometry, the law of tangents is a statement about the relationship between the lengths of the three sides of a triangle and the tangents of the angles.In Figure 1, a , b , and c are the lengths of the three sides of the triangle, and α,… …   Wikipedia

• fly off at a tangent — index deviate, digress Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• go off on a tangent — index deviate Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• brewster's law — noun Usage: usually capitalized B Etymology: after Sir David Brewster : a statement in optics: when unpolarized light of given wavelength is incident upon the surface of a transparent substance it experiences maximum plane polarization at the… …   Useful english dictionary