An osculatory circle, in geometry, is a circle having the same curvature with any curve at any given point.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
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.
Same as Pax, 2.
Contiguity Roget’s Thesaurus §199
N. contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, # abuttal, juxtaposition, abutment, osculation, meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence, adhesion, touching, (see touch 379), borderland, frontier, tangent, abutter
V. be contiguous, join, adjoin, abut on, march with, graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide, coexist, adhere, juxtapose, contact, join (unite) 43, link (vinculum) 45
Adj. contiguous, touching, in contact, conterminous, end to end, osculatory, pertingent|, tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval, 2, linear dimensions
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