tangent arc

Generic name for several types of halo arcs that form as loci tangent to other halos; the halo of 22ø occasionally exhibits the horizontal and vertical tangent arcs, and the halo of 46ø exhibits the infralateral tangent arcs and the supralateral tangent arcs.

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