Word Meanings - TANGENTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tangential.

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• TANGENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent. Tangential force , a force which acts on a moving body in the direction of a tangent to the path of the body, its effect being to increase or diminish the velocity; -- distinguished
• TANGENTIALLY
  In the direction of a tangent.