1. ADJ If you describe something as tangential, you mean that it has only a slight or indirect connection with the thing you are concerned with, and is therefore not worth considering seriously. 關(guān)系不大的[正式]

Too much time was spent discussing tangential issues. 太多時(shí)間花在了討論那些無關(guān)緊要的問題。

2. ADJ If something is tangential to something else, it is at a tangent to it. 相切的[oft ADJ 'to' n]

He closed his office on the street tangential to the courthouse square and walked the two blocks to his house.. 他關(guān)了與法院廣場(chǎng)相切的那條街上的辦公室門，走過了兩條街回到家。