teğet çizgi

Turkish - English

Definition of teğet çizgi in Turkish English dictionary

tangent line

A line sharing a common point with a curve or surface and being the closest linear approximation of the curve or surface at that point

A line sharing a common point with a curve or surface and being the closest linear approximation of the curve or surface at that point. In geometry, a line that intersects a circle exactly once; in calculus, a line that touches a curve at one point and whose slope is equal to that of the curve at that point. Particularly useful as approximations of curves in the immediate vicinity of the point of tangency, tangent lines are the basis of many estimation techniques, including linear approximation. The numerical value of the slope of the tangent line to the graph of a function at any point equals that of the function's derivative at that point. This is one of the keystones of differential calculus. See also differential geometry

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te·ğet çiz·gi