Here, in order to fulfil the purposes of the previous models, the distance of the centres of the lenses from each other should only slightly exceed the tangent of sun's diameter X focal length of lenses.
This wheel is acted on by a tangent screw whose bearings are attached to the cradle; the screw is turned by means of a handle supported by bearings attached to the cradle, and coming within convenient reach of the observer's hand.
The width of each of the portions aghc and acfe cut away from the lens was made slightly greater than the focal length of lens X tangent of sun's greatest diameter.
The slowest speed is given by means of a tangent screw which is carried by a ball-bearing on the flange of the telescope-sleeve, whilst its nut is double-jointed to a ring that encircles the flange of the heliometer-tube.
With similar bevel-gear and rods the tangent screw is connected to the hand-wheel, 79, by which the observer communicates the fourth or slowest motion in position angle.
And it was in fact originally by a consideration of the tangent cone that the whole group of conical projections came into being.
A tangent plane to the surface at t cuts the plane of projection in the line rvs perpendicular to ov; tv is a tangent to the circle kt at t, tr and ts are any two tangents to the surface at t.
Read the vertical angle, and multiply its natural tangent by the distance between instrument and foot of object; the result is the height.
He finished the tangentand began rounding the curve.
At last the climbing trail dipped into a level tangent just below the top of the mountain.
Say, did these fine volitions first commence From clear ideas of the tangent sense; From sires to sons by imitation caught, Or in dumb language by tradition taught?
She was running before the wind, sir, at a tangent to our course, and more to the southwards, moving through the water quicker than we were, until she luffed up just before that mist or fog bank shut her out from view.
On the piece B four of such tangent lines (two on each side) must be drawn.
For the flanks of the teeth setting numbers are obtained from a separate table, and the instrument is turned upside down, and the tangent line D F, Fig.
Consequently there must be some point U in the path of the centre of the roller, such, that when the centre reaches it, the circumference will pass through S, and be also tangent to S K.
Let O B be tangent at O to the arc O D, of which C is the centre.
From this description it is obvious that when the number of the teeth of the wheel to be cut is a multiple of that of the wheel H, the number of turns to be given to the tangent screw H', Fig.
In the second case, in order to give the tangent screw n turns plus a fraction by giving the crank n + turns, it is necessary to employ several wheels, for which the ratio must be calculated.
These curves show that for strong intensities of current Mr. Kapp's instrument is more advantageous than thetangent galvanometer.
The unbroken lines represent the curves obtained with the apparatus just described, while the dotted ones give the curve of deflection of an ordinary tangent galvanometer.
Some one said that he went off at a tangent in 1912.
Some one else has said better that this tangent was a straight line leading back to 1882, when he sat in the New York Assembly.
This duration he supports on a God who is unceasingly renewing the creative act, and who, being thus tangent to time and becoming, sustains them, communicates to them necessarily something of his absolute reality.
A right line drawn from the center of a circle through one end of a circular arc, and terminated by a tangent drawn from the other end; the number expressing the ratio of this line to the radius of the circle.
The part of the axis contained between the ordinate and tangent drawn to the same point in a curve.
The beam carries thetangent wheels, and the rotation of the cylinder gives the energy expanded in foot-pounds or other measures.
The difference of pressure on the two sides of the piston determines the tangent of the inclination of the tangent wheel which runs on the integrating cylinder; while the motion of the latter is made to keep time with that of the piston.
Then by resisting this motion by a spring or pendulum the movement is proportional to the current, and a tangent wheel actuated by this movement causes the reciprocating cylinder on which it runs to integrate the current strength.
If the tangent wheel is turned through a right angle at starting, the machine will integrate reciprocals, or it can be made to integrate functions by an inverse process.
Tangent machines depend on pure rolling, and the inertia and friction are inappreciable.
And then he went off at a tangent from his own anecdote.
He went off at a tangent to describe the men in his platoon.
At that Mr. Britling's mind went off at a tangent to the grievance of the rejected volunteer.
Its refraction GV will be given by means of the tangentwhich will be drawn at the point G.
Now all these circumferences have for a common tangent the straight line BN; namely the same line which is drawn as a tangent from the point B to the circumference SNR which we considered first.
For there is no other line below the plane AB which is, like BN, a common tangent to all these partial waves.
And it must have been a sight worth seeing, for we were running at 70 miles an hour now, with 60 miles of tangent ahead of us.
In this projection the eye is assumed to be at the center of the earth and the features are projected upon a plane tangent to some point on the earth's surface.
Only a lucky cross trail, that had led him off at a tangent and somehow escaped the eyes of his pursuers, had saved him from the fate of his companions.
Hopalong's plan was to drive off at a tangent running a little north from the regular trail and thus cross numerous small streams in preference to going on straight and facing the swollen Comanchee at Dunton's Ford.
Besides these circles which are used with the triangles there are two otherstangent to the squares: one to the 7 centimeters square and the other to the 3.
There is also a circle which is tangent to the edges of the large equilateral triangle.
Then there is a small circle which is tangent to the smallest equilateral triangle.
The versed sines of the angles, A O B and A O C, show that in the time, A C, the revolving body was deflected four times as far from the tangent to the circle at A as it was in the time, A B.
The law is absolutely true only when the tangent and arc coincide, and approximately so for exceedingly small angles.
In reality, however, we have only to do with the case in which the arc and the tangent do coincide, and in which the law that the deflection is equal to the versed sine of the angle is absolutely true.
The tangent to the arc at A, from which this deflection is measured, is omitted in this figure to avoid confusion.
A E, of the angle A O C, represents in a general way the distance that the body A will be deflected from the tangent A D toward the center O while describing the arc A C.
If at any point the revolving body could get free, and sometimes it does get free, it would move straight on, in a line tangent to the circle at the point of its liberation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tangent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
