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A secant plane is a plane containing a nontrivial section of a sphere or an ellipsoid, or such a plane that a sphere is projected onto. Secant planes are similar to tangent planes, which contact the sphere's surface at a point, while secant planes contact the surface along curves.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secant plane | is a | plane containing a nontrivial section of a sphere or an ellipsoid | 0.90 | text |
| Secant plane | has application | Secant | 0.60 | section |
| Secant plane | has application | The | 0.60 | section |
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