Definition:Tangent Circles

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Definition

In the words of Euclid:

Circles are said to touch one another which, meeting one another, do not cut one another.

(The Elements: Book $\text{III}$: Definition $3$)


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In the above diagram, the two circles are tangent to each other at the point $C$.