Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tangent_plane

1 sense of tangent plane

Sense 1
tangent plane -- (the plane that contains all the lines tangent to a specific point on a surface)
       => plane, sheet -- ((mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane")