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A: A tangent. 6 R3 k! G) q1 ^* \ _& p. P ; N0 r; b' g* vtangent 1 l( Z! E0 P$ H' R noun; t7 s- l- V2 \2 m4 F
(geometry) a straight line that touches the outside of a curve but does not cross it