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Oscula [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Osculant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

2. Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.

3. Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.

Osculate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To kiss one another; to kiss.

2. To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.

3. To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.

Osculate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To kiss.

2. To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.

Osculated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Osculating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Osculation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In geometry, the contract between any given curve and its osculatory circle, that is, a circle of the same curvature with the given curve.

Osculation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of kissing; a kiss.

2. The contact of one curve with another, when the number of consecutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve.

Osculatory [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An osculatory circle, in geometry, is a circle having the same curvature with any curve at any given point.

Osculatory [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In church history, a tablet or board, with the picture of Christ or the virgin, etc. which is kissed by the priest and then delivered to the people for the same purpose.

Osculatory [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.

2. Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point.

Osculatory [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Pax, 2.

Osculatrix [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.

Osculatrixes [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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