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Synonyms for tangent

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touching, tangential, in contact; see contiguous.

go off on a tangent

swerve, get off course, get off the subject, lose track; see deviate. See syn. study at adjacent.

See tangent in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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