tangent plane

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   the plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface

   Broaderplane

Questions about tangent plane

What does tangent plane mean?

tangent plane means "the plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface".

Is tangent plane a common word?

tangent plane 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.