Usually means: Relating to or slightly connected.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word tangential:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. tangential: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tangential: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tangential: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tangential: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tangential: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tangential, tangential: Wordnik
  7. tangential: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tangential: Wiktionary
  9. tangential: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tangential: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tangential: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tangential: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Tangential: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Tangential: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tangential: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. tangential: Rhymezone
  17. Tangential: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tangential: Free Dictionary
  19. tangential: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. tangential: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. 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)

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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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