What is "tangentially"

Usage examples of "tangentially".

How could this possibly happen, and at the same time be moving tangentially to the orbit?

As predicted, he had retained the intrinsic velocity and direction of his Earth orbit, moving tangentially to the point from which he had transferred.

We are rising tangentially and decelerating under gravitational attraction.

The roll assembly was the same except that the jets were locked in the bracket so they faced tangentially, two clockwise, two counter.

Diamond and his modest staff walked into the Center carrying orders and directives that gave the Mother Company total control over all operations touching, either directly or tangentially, the oil-producing nations.

Rebka started the car moving again, but this time directed its course tangentially to the wall.

As he crawled out from behind the bench again Hank wondered tangentially if maybe his mother and he would soon be moving now.

She was peering at the bends in the corridor, but Miko had vanished tangentially, not circumferentially and was now watching from the peepery.

He had discovered, however, what was pertinent to his purpose: that she'd been connected, though perhaps only tangentially, with one of those grand conspiracies or foretastes of Armageddon which seemed to have captivated all diplomatic sensibilities in the years preceding the Great War.

Though treated primarily as witnesses, Derec’s staff had been detained and questioned for several weeks, and at least one person had been arrested on a minor charge tangentially related to Phylaxis and its activities.

Peter, not a voluble man even in ordinary circumstances, was content to lean back and listen to their conversation, which touched only tangentially on the issue the Soviets had come to discuss: the third level of the palimpsest, the elaborate, complex, and still undecoded Message they were collectively receiving.