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tangential velocity comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has synonym	has definition
velocity	quantity		The speed and the direction of an object's motion.
tangential velocity	velocity	transverse velocity	A star's velocity across an observer's line of sight. To calculate a star's tangential velocity, one must know the star's distance and proper motion.

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