"tangence" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1874, L J V. Gerard, The elements of geometry, in eight books; or, First step in applied logic, page 106:",
          "text": "The points of intangence, or extangence, of two circumferences are the points of tangence of their intangents, or extangents.",
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          "ref": "1957, Canadin Patent Office, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, volume 85, numbers 10-12, page 8721:",
          "text": "[…]to assure the belt passes only through said points of tangence,[…].",
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          "ref": "2006, ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling: Proceedings, page 185:",
          "text": "The latter enables designers and engineers to describe geometric entities (points, lines, planes, curves, surfaces) by specification of constraints: distances, angles, incidences, tangences between geometric entities.",
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          "ref": "1874, L J V. Gerard, The elements of geometry, in eight books; or, First step in applied logic, page 106:",
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          "ref": "1957, Canadin Patent Office, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, volume 85, numbers 10-12, page 8721:",
          "text": "[…]to assure the belt passes only through said points of tangence,[…].",
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