tangency

Other forms of tangency

plural

tangencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tangency

What does tangency mean?

tangency means "the state of being tangent; having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tangency?

tangency has 3 syllables: tan-gen-cy. The stress falls on "tan".

What is another word for tangency?

Close synonyms include contact. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tangency a common word?

tangency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.