Tangential vs Peripheral - What's the difference?
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Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
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Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
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Only indirectly related.
on the periphery or boundary
beside the point
unimportant
auxiliary
(neuroanatomy) a part of or located in the peripheral nervous system
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(computing) a device, such as a printer or scanner, connected to a computer
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As adjectives the difference between tangential and peripheral
is that tangential is referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something while peripheral is on the periphery or boundary.As a noun peripheral is
a device, such as a printer or scanner, connected to a computer.tangential
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The meteor came in on a tangential orbit and exploded about 8 or 10 miles above the earth's surface, just south of the Arctic Circle.
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- The archoplasm divides and forms a very large spindle which first lies tangential to the surface of the nucleus.
- That subject is tangential to our discussion, and we cannot let it distract us.
Derived terms
* (l)peripheral
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(wikipedia peripheral)Adjective
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Derived terms
* peripherally * peripheral vision * peripheral nervous systemNoun
(en noun)- I was kind of looking at the ball, keeping him in my peripheral and all of sudden I see him closing in on the ball.