Definition of tang

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Tang (n.) Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang..

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Afoul :: Afoul (adv. & a.) In collision; entangled.
Shear :: Shear (v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress..
Table :: Table (n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables,
Protractor :: Protractor (n.) A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular..
Knotted :: Knotted (a.) Interwoven; matted; entangled.
Horizon :: Horizon (n.) A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon.
Heel :: Heel (n.) The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the heel of a scythe..
Tangfish :: Tangfish (n.) The common harbor seal.
Intricable :: Intricable (a.) Entangling.
Tangential :: Tangential (a.) Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.
Curvature :: Curvature (n.) The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point..
Mesologarithm :: Mesologarithm (n.) A logarithm of the cosine or cotangent.
Cotangent :: Cotangent (n.) The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Pongo :: Pongo (n.) Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the orang-outang..
Tangent :: Tangent (a.) meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces..
Catch :: Catch (v. t.) Hence: To insnare; to entangle.
Untangle :: Untangle (v. t.) To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread..
Complexity :: Complexity (n.) The state of being complex; intricacy; entanglement.
Indicatrix :: Indicatrix (n.) A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic..
Web :: Web (v. t.) To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle..
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