tangentially

基本解释

This is primarily ‘database to database’ information—people are only tangentially involved in most of it.
这主要是数据库-数据库的信息，人们仅仅稍微涉及大部分该类信息。
How many are tangentially sculpted because of the tools of creation (tangent-restricted solid modeling software)?
有多少设计是限于创造工具而被迫选择了正切的造型形式（比如有切线限制的实体建模软件）？
There's no longer anything basic about the service, though. It's chockablock with features, options and related tools, some of which are only tangentially related to e-mail.
可是现在它已经不再有任何简单基本的服务，而是塞满了各种功能、选项和相关工具，有些仅仅能和电子邮件挨上一点儿边。

Many of the government initiatives around small business are tangentially aimed at new maker business.
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Gonzales has claimed that he was involved only tangentially in the firing of the U.S. attorneys.
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Incidentally, the biggest investment brain in the world got caught up tangentially in the subprime mortgage web.
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