Word Meanings - SUBTANGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.

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• TANGENTIAL
  Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent. Tangential force , a force which acts on a moving body in the direction of a tangent to the path of the body, its effect being to increase or diminish the velocity; -- distinguished
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• DRAWN
  See PATTERN
• POINTLESS
  Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• TANGENT
  A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced.
• ORDINATELY
  In an ordinate manner; orderly. Chaucer. Skelton.
• POINTLETED
  Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow.
• ORDINATE
  Well-ordered; orderly; regular; methodical. "A life blissful and ordinate." Chaucer. Ordinate figure , a figure whose sides and angles are equal; a regular figure.
• CURVET
  A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once. 2. A prank; a frolic.
• POINT D'APPUI
  See APPUI
• TANGENTAL
  Tangential.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• INSUBORDINATE
  Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous
• COTANGENT
  The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• INTERPOINT
  To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• INCOORDINATE; INCOOERDINATE
  Not coördinate.