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A: A tangent. 4 J0 u4 [ P! n1 f: q7 a! A. g$ O + H7 i7 a# Q0 z! dtangent ) e, z _0 h; m" J1 {
noun ( ?4 A2 |. ?% E; ^$ F (geometry) a straight line that touches the outside of a curve but does not cross it