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Q: What t-word is defined in geometry as a straight line that touches a curve?
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What T-word is defined in geometry as a straight line that touches a curve but continue on with crossing?

Tangent


What is the name given to a straight line that touches a curve?

In geometry a straight line that touches a curve is called a tangent.


What T-word is defined in geometry as a straight line that that touches a curve but continues on without crossing?

It is a tangent line


What t-word is defined in geometry as a strait line that touches a curve?

tangent


What t-word is define in geometry as a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it?

A tangent line touches a curve or the circumference of a circle at just one point.


What t words is define in geometry as a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with croosing it?

A tangent, but it (a) has nothing to do with croosing (whatever that may mean); and (b) while it does not cross the curve in the neighbourhood of the point of contact - there is no restriction on it crossing the curve at a distance.


What is meant by tangent to a curve at a point?

It is a straight line that touches the curve such that the line is perpendicular to the radius of the curve at the point of contact.


What is a straight line that touches a curve but continues on with crossing it?

A tangent line.


In maths what is a tangent and what is a chord?

Tangent:In geometry, the tangent line (or simply the tangent) is a curve at a given point and is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. As it passes through the point where the tangent line and the curve meet the tangent line is "going in the same direction" as the curve, and in this sense it is the best straight-line approximation to the curve at that point.Chord:A chord of a curve is a geometric line segment whose endpoints both lie on the outside of the circle.


Do a straight line and a curved line form avertex at its joining point?

A tangent at that point where a straight line just touches a curve and a secant line when the straight line bisects the curve.


What is a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at one point?

A tangent


What is a curve?

A geometrical curve is defined as any set of points. Therefore, counter-intuitively, a straight line is also a geometrical curve.