Both Uses
tangent
in
Dune
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- The tangential slash of her question shocked his mind into a higher awareness: Sand through a screen, he nodded.†
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- "There are several tangential possibilities," Piter said.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(tangent as in: off-topic on a tangent) a topic with little or no connection to the main subject
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) in geometry or math, touching at only a single point