tangent plane

collocation in English

meaningsoftangentandplane

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tangent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtæn.dʒənt/us
/ˈtæn.dʒənt/
a straight line that touches but does not cut into ...
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plane
noun[C]
uk
/pleɪn/us
/pleɪn/
;
a vehicle designed for air travel, with wings and one or ...
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(Definition oftangentandplanefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is the figure obtained by taking a very thin slice off a folded surface, parallel to thetangentplane.
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The accessibility cones are determined by the half space concept using thetangentplaneto surface at the inspection point.
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Locally, a smooth manifold can be expressed as a graph over itstangentplane.
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Now the trajectory is perpendicular to thetangentplane.
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This is because, although the first-order derivatives describe thetangentplane, the second-order conditions describe how these planes move.
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Thetangentplaneis the best linear approximation, or linearization, of a surface at a point.
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These identifications are always given by affine transformations from onetangentplaneto another.
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Draw a plane parallel to thetangentplaneand a small distance away from it.
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If a surface does not have atangentplaneat a point, it does not have a normal at that point either.
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The tangent is part of thetangentplaneand can be transformed simply with the linear part of the matrix (the upper 3x3).
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This approximation can be visualized as atangentplanetouching the surface of the sphere at this latitude.
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In analogy with the f-plane, this approximation is termed the beta plane, even though it no longer describes dynamics on a hypotheticaltangentplane.
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In such a hexlet there is only onetangentplaneto the hexlet.
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The "geocentric" latitude is "not" the appropriate "up" direction for the localtangentplane.
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Momentum vectors are linear functionals on thetangentplane, known as cotangent vectors.
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A related notion of curvature is the shape operator, which is a linear operator from thetangentplaneto itself.
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Two different hyperbola will be formed on either side of thetangentplane.
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At such points the surface will be dome like, locally lying on one side of itstangentplane.
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Namely, to define a foliation, these tangent planes need to satisfy certain structural rules of how they are stacked.
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