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tangent plane
 

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Noun tangent plane has 1 sense
  1. tangent plane - the plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface
    --1 is a kind of     plane, sheet

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Tangent Plane

Noun: A plane that intersects a given point on a surface and is parallel to the surface's tangent at that point.

Example Sentence: The tangent plane at the vertex of the paraboloid is parallel to the surface at that point.

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