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tangents

In music, the screwdriver-shaped pins that strike the wire strings of a clavichord. The strings continue to sound while the tangents touch them, and their tone can thus approximate a violin's vibrato by altering the pressure of the finger on the depressed key.
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The latter, however, continued to ascend, while the lightning described tangents to the convexity of her circumference; but she bore on, right through the midst of the fire.
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