Usually means: Length of projection beneath a curve.
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  1. subtangent: Merriam-Webster
  2. subtangent: Collins English Dictionary
  3. subtangent: Wordnik
  4. subtangent: Wiktionary
  5. subtangent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. subtangent: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Subtangent, subtangent: Dictionary.com
  8. Subtangent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Subtangent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. subtangent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Subtangent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. subtangent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. subtangent: FreeDictionary.org
  14. subtangent: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. subtangent: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subtangent)

▸ noun:  (geometry) The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.

Similar:
bitangent, subtense, point of tangency, inflectional tangent, tangent, subnormal, tangent line, conjugate axis, tangent plane, tacnode, more...

Opposite:
supertangent, cotangent, secant

Types:
secant, cotangent, tangent, more...

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Similar:
bitangent, subtense, point of tangency, inflectional tangent, tangent, subnormal, tangent line, conjugate axis, tangent plane, tacnode, more...

Opposite:
supertangent, cotangent, secant

Types:
secant, cotangent, tangent, more...



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