tangential : Idioms & Phrases


Tangential force

  • (Mech.), a force which acts on a moving body in the direction of a tangent to the path of the body, its effect being to increase or diminish the velocity; distinguished from a normal force, which acts at right angles to the tangent and changes the direction of the motion without changing the velocity.
Webster 1913

Tangential stress

  • . (Engin.) See Shear, n., 3.
Webster 1913