| 释义 | 
		tangentialtan‧gen‧tial /tænˈdʒenʃəl/ adjective    - Even the tangential characters are wittily drawn.
 
 - Mona, Seth and Barbara make up the main focus of the book, but even the tangential characters are wittily drawn.
 - On the left-hand sides are the well-known expressions for the radial and tangential components of acceleration.
 - The Cartesian coordinates which result from this transformation describe a space which is tangential to the curved space at the point selected.
 - There are two reasons for giving them only the most tangential treatment here.
 - These are male-dominated arenas; women have historically been tangential to them.
 - When this is augmented by oddly tangential keyboard sounds it's an enjoyable little maelstrom to be caught up in.
 
    formal tangential information, remarks etc are only related to a particular subject in an indirect waytangential to  The matter you raise is rather tangential to this discussion.—tangentially adverb  |