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tangency

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Tangency (noun) means the condition of being tangent, or one case of this.

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The condition of being tangent, or one case of this.

"In this section we will apply the concept of connectedness in dimension d to study tangencies of algebraic varieties." — H. Flenner, L. O′Carroll (1999)

"To be tangent to a circle or arc, a line must touch the circle or arc at only one point, and a line drawn from the center of the circle or arc must be perpendicular to the tangent line at the point of tangency. (See Figure 6.82.)" — David A. Madsen et al, Engineering Drawing & Design (2004)

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