tangential

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1) Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
 * 2) Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
 * 3) * 1898, Gary Nathan Calkins, Mitosis in and its bearing on the nuclear relations of the Protozoa and Metazoa, Ph.D. Thesis, page 3
 * The archoplasm divides and forms a very large spindle which first lies tangential to the surface of the nucleus.
 * 1) Only indirectly related.
 * That subject is tangential to our discussion, and we cannot let it distract us.
 * 1) Only indirectly related.
 * That subject is tangential to our discussion, and we cannot let it distract us.

Translations

 * Catalan: tangencial
 * Czech: tečnový
 * Esperanto: tanĝanta
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: tangencial
 * Vietnamese:


 * Esperanto: tanĝanta
 * Finnish: sivuava,
 * German:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Catalan: tangencial
 * Czech: okrajový
 * Esperanto: parenteza
 * Finnish:, etäisesti liittyvä,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Russian:, имеющий слабое отноше́ние
 * Spanish: tangencial