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<p><a href="page.php?w=Image%3ATangent_to_a_curve.svg">220px</a><a href="page.php?w=Image%3AImage_Tangent-plane.svg">220px</a>In <a href="page.php?w=geometry">geometry</a>, the <b>tangent line</b> (or simply <b>tangent</b>) to a <a href="page.php?w=plane_curve">plane curve</a> at a given <a href="page.php?w=Point_%28geometry%29">point</a> is, intuitively, the <a href="page.php?w=straight_line">straight line</a> that "just touches" the curve at that point. <a href="page.php?w=Leibniz">Leibniz</a> defined it as the line through a pair of <a href="page.php?w=infinitesimal">infinitely close</a></p><p>
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