Definizione monolingua

tangential

tangential (comparative more tangential, superlative most tangential)

1. Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
   • 2002, Edward Teller, Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics, page 560

     The meteor came in on a tangential orbit and exploded about 8 or 10 miles above the earths surface, just south of the Arctic Circle

2. Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
   • 1898, Gary Nathan Calkins, Mitosis in Noctiluca miliaris 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.

3. Only indirectly related.

   That subject is tangential to our discussion, we cant let it distract us.

Definizione dizionario tangential

	tangenziale
	only indirectly related
	referring to a tangent
	merely touching

Altri significati:

Only indirectly related.

Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.

Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.