What is "tangential"

Usage examples of "tangential".

And, we might also ask, why the tangential resistance to the comet of Encke should not also produce a retrograde motion in the apsides of the orbit, instead of diminishing its period?

As there was a necessity for reconciling this stubborn fact with the theory, his followers have made up the deficiency by resorting to the tangential force, or, as Clairant proposed, by continuing the approximations to terms of a higher order, or to the square of the disturbing force.

And, we might also ask, why the tangential resistance to the comet of Encke should not also produce a retrograde motion in the apsides of the orbit, instead of diminishing its period?

It was one thing to sit and discuss the problem on the Inter-System ship with the other contestants, and quite another to be racing in toward Whirlygig on a tangential trajectory.

The clouds thickened toward the equator, and when she looked ahead, tangential to the Earth's surface, she could see them climbing up into the atmosphere, as if Ares was heading for a wall of vapor.

I followed my guides past dark doorways and empty cubbyholes, through odd tangential junctions.

So, although the tangential approach of the Endeavor had evoked no discernible response, Resolute deorbited above the night side, where the solar-powered masers were inactive.

Thanks to her upgraded engines she was travelling much faster than the slow freighters, the tramp steamers of the space-ways who were restricted to Hohmann ellipses, those long tangential flight paths that expended minimum energy by just kissing the orbits of Earth and Venus on opposite sides of the sun.

And when Dirk had started his usual speech to the effect that his methods, involving as they did the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, often led to expenses that might appear to the untutored eye to be somewhat tangential to the matter in hand, the client had simply waved the matter aside as trifling.

The logo seemed standard enough-two intersecting circles representing two particle accelerators, and five tangential lines representing particle injection tubes.

Any epidemic starts low and ramps up, slowly at first, like a tangential curve, and then it rockets up geometrically.

It was mounted horizontally so its thrust would be tangential to the surface, but to keep it from ripping free the engineers had set its forward thrust plate against a concrete wall nearly twenty meters thick, from which braces ran forward at an angle deep into the ground.

Mcliityre steadied the ship about a transverse axis so that the tail pointed toward the sun, then gave a short blast on two tangential jets opposed in couple to cause the ship to spin slowly about her longitudinal axis, and thereby create a slight artificial gravity.