tangents

英 [ˈtændʒənts]

美 [ˈtændʒənts]

n.  切线; 正切
tangent的复数

柯林斯词典

• 切线
  Atangentis a line that touches the edge of a curve or circle at one point, but does not cross it.
• PHRASE 突然偏离原来的思路;突然离题
  If someonegoes off at a tangent, they start saying or doing something that is not directly connected with what they were saying or doing before.
  1. The conversation went off at a tangent.
     交谈突然偏离了正题。

双语例句

• THE GRAPHICS OF THE INTERSECTIONS AND COMMON TANGENTS OF TWO CONICS A Method of Drawing Quadric Curve Tangents
  两二次曲线公有点和公切线的图解问题二次曲线的切线作法
• Tangents Passing Through the Inner or Exterior Point of a Non-degenerate Quadric Curve
  非退化二次曲线过其内点和外点的切线
• And take the third turning on the left. three-diameter ells with tangents
  在第三个拐弯处向左拐，带切线直管段的三倍直径弯头
• A Graphic Method of Determining Two Conic Sections Common Tangents
  两圆锥曲线公切线的图解方法
• Draw textured bezier line through start and end points with the given tangents.
  绘制带纹理的贝塞尔曲线通过开始和结束点带有给定切线。
• Keep following tangents and new ideas without limiting yourself to one.
  追随脑中源源不断的新想法，而不强迫自己集中于一。
• If the seams are still present with these settings, enable Split tangents across UV seams.
  如果这些设置仍然存在接缝，启用切分切线。
• As a writer who had always been much to fond of parentheses and footnotes, I found this opportunity to go off on tangents irresistible.
  作为一名总是过度痴迷于各种小伎俩和注释的作者，我发现这是一个难以抵抗的偏离主题的机会。
• We don't have any of this kind of stuff in the synoptics of Jesus just going off on tangents for paragraphs at a time and talking for a whole chapter sometimes.
  在符类福音中是没有这种东西的，有时就是大段大段的话，甚至整章都是他说的话。
• A pair of cylindrical helix splines which are G1-jointed can interpolate two given end-points and their tangents, and fit several needs of design, such as to approximate two end-points normal directions of the double cylindrical helix segment, to smooth resulting curves, etc.
  一对G1拼接的圆柱螺线段可插值空间两端点位矢和单位切矢，且可适应不同的设计要求，如逼近在双圆柱螺线段两端点处的主法矢，使曲线光顺等。