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If your question is " What is the shape of a sphere's tangent?" , then the answer is : a plane.

A plane basically touches the sphere at only one point and hence , it should be a plane.

It cannot be a straight line , as a straight line is a tangent for 2D objects,( ie.) a circle.

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