tangential
About 1.64 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
- adjective Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
- adjective Only indirectly related.
That subject is tangential to our discussion, and we cannot let it distract us.
Similar words
digressive irrelevant peripheral miscellaneous incidental accessory ancillary tangent shear discursive
Often followed by
to velocity component force and stress section components direction stresses
Word family
tangentially
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