English-Italian translations for tangent

• tangente
  Vorrei dire al Consiglio che sarebbe importante che operasse in collaborazione con il Parlamento, invece di partire per la tangente, andando per la sua strada. I would say to the Council that in future it is important that it works with Parliament rather than going off at a tangent and doing its own thing.
  Correndo il rischio di procedere lungo una tangente, vorrei conoscere il ruolo delle parti sociali, che sembra evidente per la loro assenza da questa relazione. At the risk of going off on a tangent, I would like to ask about the role of the social partners, which seem conspicuous by their absence from this report.

Definition of tangent

• A a at a single without it there
• A nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in with it
• A small metal blade in a clavichord that strikes the strings to produce sound
• Touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point

Examples

• I believe we went off onto a tangent when we started talking about monkeys on unicycles at his retirement party.

Related words

• tangential
• cotangent
• arctangent
• tangentially
• arccotangent
• tangentoid
• tangent plane
• tangent space
• tangent curve