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Noun Concept

Categories: Differential geometry, Differential topology, Articles with short description, All Wikipedia articles written in American English

tangent plane tangent space Planar tangent tangent spaces

The plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface WordNet 3.0

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The plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In mathematics, the tangent space of a manifold is a generalization of tangent lines to curves in two-dimensional space and tangent planes to surfaces in three-dimensional space in higher dimensions. Wikipedia

Vector space associated to a point in a smooth manifold, consisting of vectors tangent to it Wikidata

Given a point P on a surface M, the tangent plane of M at point P, denoted by TP(M), is the plane passing through P which contains the tangent lines of all the curves on M passing through P. Wiktionary

Differential geometry. Wiktionary (translation)

An n-dimensional vector space that represents the set of all vectors tangent to given n-dimensional differentiable manifold M at point x. Wiktionary

Vector space tangent to a manifold. Wiktionary (translation)

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