English Explanatory Dictionary

tangent plane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The plane passing through a given point which contains the tangent lines of all the curves on a surface passing through that same point.

Word forms

tangent plane tangent planes
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on T Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary