Specifically (Magnetism), a line in proximity to a magnet so drawn that any point in it is tangential with the direction of a short compass needle held at that point.
Nichols and Hull, and the tangential component by J.
According to what seems to me to be the most probable theory of the origin of continents and ocean-basins, they are broad upward and downward bendings or arches into which the crust is thrown by the tangential pressure.
The effect of this greater tangential shrinkage effects every phase of woodworking.
On the faces of the boards nearest the slab (tangential or bastard boards) the several years' growth should also appear as parallel, but much broader stripes.
This same form also occurs on the radial plane, causing the tangential section to appear wavy or in transverse folds.
Wavy-grain in a tangentialplane as seen on the radial section is illustrated in Fig.
A very moist piece of pine or oak will, during one hour, lose more than four times as much water per square inch from the cross-section, but only one half as much from the tangential as from the radial section.
That is, EF, EG, EH are all equal, hence a semicircle struck from E with radius equal to the depth of the stream will pass through F and H and be tangential to the sides of the channel.
Drawing vo or uo radial or axial as the case may be, and Vo tangential to the direction of motion, v(ro) can be found by the parallelogram of velocities.
It is easily deduced from the absence or smallness of the tangential stress that contiguous portions of fluid act on each other with a pressure which is exactly or very nearly normal to the interface which separates them.
Let P be resolved into two components, N and T, normal and tangential to the direction of motion of the solid on which the fluid impinges.
The water will flow over the vane with the relative velocity v - u and at B will have the tangential relative velocity v - u making an angle [alpha] with the direction of the vane's motion.
Under the general heading Hydromechanics a fluid is defined to be a substance which yields continually to the slightest tangential stress, and hence in a fluid at rest there can be no tangential stress.
BD = v - u tangentialto the surface with the velocity BE = u of the surface.
In order that the float may receive the water without shock, it is necessary and sufficient that the lip of the float at A should be tangential to the direction AC of relative motion.
The tangential velocity of the entering water is wi = vi cos [gamma] = 0.
It exhibits a very different appearance from that of our mountain ranges, which are for the most part the result of a tangential action.
When an object is thrown horizontally the line of flight is tangential to the earth, or at right angles to the force of gravity.
A tangential motion, or a horizontal movement, seeks to move matter away from the center of the earth, and any force which imparts a horizontal motion to an object exerts a centrifugal pull for that reason.
For the purpose of explaining the phenomena of tangential flight, we will assume that the missile was projected with a sufficient force to reach the vertical point D, which is 4000 miles from the starting point B.
As the demand for farm water-powers in our hill sections becomes more general, the tangential type of water wheel will come into common use for small plants.
Syringodendron pes-capræ; tangential vertical section in the corky part of the bark, X200.
Syringodendron pes-capræ; tangential vertical section in the corky part of the bark, X200.
When exposed on a tangential surface, they are from one-fourth to one-half inch long, and give the wood a flecked appearance.
Cleavage alongtangential lines is easy with some woods.
Medullary rays are very thin and do not show much figure; neither do the rings of growth, in tangential sawing, display much contrast.
The wood's figure is brought out best by tangential sawing, as is the case with so many woods which have clearly-marked rings but small and obscure medullary rays.
Such figures as maple has are brought out best in tangential sawing--that is, cut like a slab off the side of the log.
But the three departments have other tangential points which should not pass without some further mention.
Secondary growth in thickness is effected by the tangential division of superficial cells.
The last column shows the tangential pressure on concave surfaces which O.
Within the crust of the earth, whether by the contraction of the interior or in any other way, tangential pressures were set up.
Some appeared curved and twisted, a few lay across the others, in a direction almost tangential to the moon's limb, the general effect being described as that of a "hank of thread in disorder.
At last a point arrived when tangential velocity at the equator increased beyond the power of gravity to control, and equilibrium was restored by the separation of a nebulous ring revolving in the same period as the generating mass.
Pores in late wood fewer and larger and rarely joined by tangential lines of wood parenchyma.
Wood parenchyma around pores or extending wing-like from pores in late wood, often forming irregular tangential lines.
Hickory is readily separated from ash by the fine tangential lines of wood parenchyma and from oak by the absence of large rays.
Pores in late wood small and in radial lines, wood parenchyma in inconspicuoustangential lines.
Wood parenchyma is found in all woods, arranged sometimes in tangential lines, sometimes surrounding the pores and sometimes distributed over the cross-section.
Pores in late wood small and in conspicuous wavy tangential bands.
C aeroplane, minus the wings, rudder and elevators and one or two other minor fittings, beneath an envelope with tangential suspensions, as considerable experience had been gained already in a design of this type.
The system of rigging or car suspension is simplicity itself and is tangential to the envelope.
Thirdly, there is the streamline envelope with tangential suspensions, which has been adopted for all classes of the S.
The great feature of this principle is that it enables the car to be slung much closer to the envelope than would be possible with the tangential system on an envelope of this size.
A fluid is a substance which yields continually to the slightesttangential stress in its interior; that is, it can be divided very easily along any plane (given plenty of time if the fluid is viscous).
It follows that when the fluid has come to rest, the tangential stress in any plane in its interior must vanish, and the stress must be entirely normal to the plane.
They are, in short, mountains of elevation, ridged up by tangential thrusts.
We see, then, that such a mountain-chain must owe its origin to a process of tangential or lateral thrusting and crushing.
Mountain-ranges, they conceive, are ridged up by tangentialthrusts and compression, while vast continental areas slowly rise and fall, with little or no disturbance of the strata.
The course of the bullet was almosttangential to the ramus of the jaw, anteroposteriorly.
The course of the bullet was diagonal from within outward and backward about the middle of the leg, with the impacttangential on the tibia and direct on the fibula.
The course of the projectile was from within, outward and diagonally forward, with a direct impact on the ulna, and a tangential impact on the radius, with several lines of splitting fracture in the latter without detaching fragments.
The pressure is still exerted when the plane is not horizontal, and its direction may be obliquely inclined to, or tangential to, the plane.
The stress within the bar is shearing stress, consisting, as it must, of two sets of equal tangential tractions on two sets of planes which are at right angles to each other.
Oblique tractions can always be resolved, by the vector law, into normal and tangential tractions.
We should then know that there must be equal tangential traction directed along the length of the bar, and exerted across some planes or other which are parallel to this direction.
The tangential traction at any point of the cross-section is directed at right angles to the axial plane through the point, and the tangential traction on the axial plane is directed parallel to the length of the bar.
Through any point there always pass three planes, at right angles to each other, across which there is no tangential traction.
The stress that suffices in the simpler problem gives rise to no vertical force, and it is clear that in addition to longitudinal tensions and pressures there must be tangential tractions on the cross-sections.
For the complete specification of the "state of stress" at any point of a body, we should require to know the normal and tangentialcomponents of the traction across every plane drawn through the point.
The makers of the wire-wound cannon claim for it a positive soundness of material impossible to secure in a built-up gun, and that it has greater firmness of material and superior tangential strength.
The other is the circumferential or tangential stress, which tends to split the gun open in lines parallel to the axis of the bore.
Errors made in setting out a curve with the Trotter curve ranger are not cumulative, as in the method of tangential angles with a theodolite.
One, the bullet hitting not perpendicular to the surface of the Governor, in other words, hitting tangential at a slight angle on his back so that it came in cutting the skin.
The bullet did go along, the surgeon described the path as tangential but he is speaking of along the rib.
And would you have any view as to which factor was more probable, as to whether it was a tangential strike on the Governor's back, or whether there was yaw in the bullet at the time it struck the Governor's back?
It isn't clear it was, as it struck, whether it was a tangentialshot or actually perpendicular to the Governor's back.
Now with that factor, added to those which you already know, would that enable you to form a conclusion as to whether the nature of the wound on the Governor's back was caused by yaw of the bullet or by a tangential strike?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tangential" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
