What does tangence mean?

tangence

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"The points of intangence, or extangence, of two circumferences are the points of tangence of their intangents, or extangents."
"[…]to assure the belt passes only through said points of tangence,[…]."
"The latter enables designers and engineers to describe geometric entities (points, lines, planes, curves, surfaces) by specification of constraints: distances, angles, incidences, tangences between geometric entities."

tangences (plural)

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