tangent

digresión

Asunto nuevo que aparta una conversación de su tema principal.

En inglés sencillo: A new subject that takes a conversation away from its main subject.

• Sorry, I went off on a tangent.
• Her question sent the discussion off on a tangent.
• The speaker's tangents made the lecture hard to follow.

Cómo se usa: go off on a tangent (He went off on a tangent about his school days.)

Sinónimos: digression

Expresiones frecuentes: on a tangent, off on a tangent

tangente

Recta que toca una curva en un punto sin cruzarla allí.

En inglés sencillo: A straight line that touches a curved line at one point without passing across it there.

• Draw a tangent here.
• The tangent touches the circle at point A.
• We calculated the slopes of three tangents.

Cómo se usa: tangent to something (Draw a tangent to the circle at this point.)

Expresiones frecuentes: draw a tangent, tangent to something

tangente

Seno de un ángulo dividido por su coseno; en un triángulo rectángulo, cateto opuesto dividido por cateto adyacente.

En inglés sencillo: An angle's sine divided by its cosine; in a right triangle, the opposite side divided by the adjacent side.

• Calculate the tangent of this angle.
• The tangent of forty-five degrees is one.
• We used a calculator to find the tangent.

Cómo se usa: tangent of an angle (Find the tangent of this angle.)

Expresiones frecuentes: tangent of something, calculate the tangent

recto

Que sigue en línea recta, sin curvas, especialmente una carretera o una vía férrea.

En inglés sencillo: Straight, without a curve to either side, especially when describing a road or railway.

• The train reached tangent track.
• This tangent section runs beside the river.
• Engineers inspected the tangent stretches of the railway.

Sinónimos: straight

Antónimos: curved

Expresiones frecuentes: tangent track, tangent section, tangent alignment