tangentially
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7.7
- adverb
- /tænˈdʒɛnʃəli/
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tangencialmente
- It's got me thinking this is only very tangentially related to your work.
- tangentially related
- only tangentially
You just don't want to take money from tangentially associated military kind of efforts.
- You just don't want to take money from tangentially associated military kind of efforts.
- Because you also have a podcast, tangentially speaking.
- They'll just interact amongst themselves, just like ants interact amongst themselves and only tangentially interact with humans.
- And somebody who I only knew very tangentially sent me an e-mail and said, hey, I read that article.
- And, and Earth is, is discussed a little bit in some of the stories just tangentially.
- Feel Good is kind of a way of honoring that on some level tangentially, like what's important to you in the work that you do and how you live your life.
- And I tangentially kind of hear that so many of these, you know, sometimes NVIDIA GPU's are sold out because of this other application.
Examples
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Finally, I'd like to mention one last, if only tangentially related, concept.
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Yet his work is only tangentially incorporated into the history presented in the book.
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And somebody who I only knew very tangentially sent me an e-mail and said, hey, I read that article.
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Other, at least tangentially related, organizations arrived as well.
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I know this is way off topic, though tangentially related; for that, I apologize.
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Do not submit a proposal that is void of any connection or is only tangentially related.
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Various musings on running or items at least tangentially related to running.
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The disadvantage of the separation of school from community was that students developed distinctive subcultures only tangentially related to education.
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Another thing, related to your concluding points: I'm actually tangentially involved in a crowd-sourcing archival transcription.
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The article only discusses the topic tangentially, mentioning it briefly in the conclusion.
Synonyms
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4.2
In a small way that is not the main thing
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6.8
At the outer edge or in a small unimportant way
As a side effect that is not the main result
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Morphology
tangentially = tangential (semi-transparent) = tangent + ial + ly
The word 'tangentially' is derived from 'tangential', which relates to a tangent. The adverbial form suggests a manner of being slightly or indirectly related, which may not be immediately clear to all learners.
Etymology
Tangentially comes from the root tang-, from the Latin tangere, which means 'to touch'. In math a tangent is a line that only touches a circle at one small point, so to mention something tangentially is to 'touch' a subject briefly or only a little, not talk about it fully.