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tangence en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of tangency.
   alt of tangency
   • […]to assure the belt passes only through said points of tangence,[…]. 1957, Canadin Patent Office, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, volume 85, numbers 10-12, page 8721:
   • The points of intangence, or extangence, of two circumferences are the points of tangence of their intangents, or extangents. 1874, L J V. Gerard, The elements of geometry, in eight books; or, First step in applied logic, page 106:
   • The latter enables designers and engineers to describe geometric entities (points, lines, planes, curves, surfaces) by specification of constraints: distances, angles, incidences, tangences between geometric entities. 2006, ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling: Proceedings, page 185:

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