Usually means: Relating to or slightly connected.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word tangential:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. tangential: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tangential: Merriam-Webster
  3. tangential: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tangential: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tangential: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tangential: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tangential, tangential: Wordnik
  8. tangential: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tangential: Wiktionary
  10. tangential: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tangential: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tangential: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tangential: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Tangential: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Tangential: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. tangential: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. tangential: Rhymezone
  18. Tangential: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tangential: FreeDictionary.org
  20. tangential: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. tangential: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. tangential: Dictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangential: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. tangential: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangential: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tangential: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tangential, tangential: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See tangentially as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
adjective:  Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
adjective:  Only indirectly related.

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