What is the meaning of the value of tangent?

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The unit circle gif came around again and I can wrap my head around sin and cos as measures of the x and y components of the unit circle. but the tangent doesn’t seem to be a measurement of anything and I have never really understood that.

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The tangent (in trigonometry) is mathematically equivalent to the slope of the hypoteneuse.

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