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What is a tangent in geometry terms

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In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Leibniz defined it as the line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve. ... The word "tangent" comes from the Latin tangere, "to touch".

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