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tangent
(a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point)
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straight line
(a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature)
"the shortest distance between two points is a straight line"
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line
(a length (straight or curved) without breadth or thickness; the trace of a moving point)
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shape
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form
(the spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance)
"geometry is the mathematical science of shape"
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tangent
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tan
(ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle)