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TANGENT PLANE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("tangent plane" is a kind of...):
plane; sheet ((mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape)
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