TANGENT PLANE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tangent plane mean? 

• TANGENT PLANE (noun)
  The noun TANGENT PLANE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TANGENT PLANE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TANGENT PLANE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("tangent plane" is a kind of...):

plane; sheet ((mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape)