tang

Usage

• tangible

  Something that is tangible is able to be touched and thus is considered real.

• contagion

  A contagion is a disease—or the transmission of that disease—that is easily spread from one person to another through touch or the air.

• integral

  Something that is integral to something else is an essential or necessary part of it.

• tangential

  A tangential point in an argument merely touches upon something that is not really relevant to the conversation at hand; rather, it is a minor or unimportant point.

• contagious

  easily diffused or spread as from one person to another

• cotangent

  ratio of the adjacent to the opposite side of a right-angled triangle

• intangible

  (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value

• tangent

  a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point