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[ adjective ] of superficial relevance if any
Synonyms Examples "a digressive allusion to the day of the week" "a tangential remark Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)The myth of the Southern plantation has had only a tangential relation with actuality , as Francis_Pendleton_Gaines showed forty years ago , and I suspect it has had a far narrower acceptance as something real than has generally been supposed . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] of or relating to or acting along or in the direction of a tangent
Examples "tangential forces" Related terms |
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