• In geometry, the tangent cone is a generalization of the notion of the tangent space to a manifold to the case of certain spaces with singularities. In...
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    In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is, intuitively, the straight line that "just touches" the curve at...
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    {\displaystyle y=R_{1}+(x-L_{1})\tan(\phi _{2})\;} Next to a simple cone, the tangent ogive shape is the most familiar in hobby rocketry. The profile of...
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  • usually is equal to the pitch angle. The back cone of a bevel or hypoid gear is an imaginary cone tangent to the outer ends of the teeth, with its elements...
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    and the accompanying diagram show that the tangent BE bisects the angle ∠FEC. In other words, the tangent to the parabola at any point bisects the angle...
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    a tangent developable is a particular kind of developable surface obtained from a curve in Euclidean space as the surface swept out by the tangent lines...
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    each point of which the rays to two fixed foci are reflections across the tangent line at that point, or as the solution of certain bivariate quadratic equations...
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    three pairs of external tangent lines are collinear. For any two circles in a plane, an external tangent is a line that is tangent to both circles but does...
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  • In algebraic geometry, the Zariski tangent space is a construction that defines a tangent space at a point P on an algebraic variety V (and more generally)...
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  • varies, the tangent planes envelope a cone in R3 with vertex at x 0 , y 0 , z 0 {\displaystyle x_{0},y_{0},z_{0}} , called the Monge cone. When F is quasilinear...
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