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The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.

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Definitions

  1. n. The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
  2. n. the state of being tangent; having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing
  3. n. (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact
  4. The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
  5. n. the state of being tangent; having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing