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Terms vs Tangence - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and tangence

is that terms is while tangence is .

terms

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Noun

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    tangence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1874 , L J V. Gerard, The elements of geometry, in eight books; or, First step in applied logic , page 106,
  • The points of intangence'', or ''extangence , of two circumferences are the points of tangence of their intangents, or extangents.
  • * 1957 , Canadin Patent Office, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights , Volume 85, Issues 10-12, page 8721,
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  • * 2006 , ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling: Proceedings , page 185,
  • The latter enables designers and engineers to describe geometric entities (points, lines, planes, curves, surfaces) by specification of constraints: distances, angles, incidences, tangences between geometric entities.
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