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Definition of Osculated
1. osculate [v] - See also: osculate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Osculated
Literary usage of Osculated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sun by Amédée Guillemin (1875)
"Twenty-nine spots thus observed gave as the mean period of a rotation 25d-34 ;
but the extreme periods observed osculated between a maximum of 26'U23 and a ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
""Tliere is arranged within the time lock a yoke, в, which is capable of being
osculated or turned on its axis or 171 ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1854)
"Kiss away, my boy,' said I ; ' I have osculated reams of note paper in my time,
and know full well whom that pretty little packet comes from. ..."
4. A Treatise on Conic Sections: Containing an Account of Some of the Most by George Salmon (1879)
"For it indicates whether the given curve is osculated by a circle whose equation
is of the form x1 + Zxy cos co + y2 + 2ra sin to = 0, ..."
5. Theory of Differential Equations by Andrew Russell Forsyth (1900)
"... but except for the curves in such set or sets, the curvatures are distinct:
and in general, no one of these curves is osculated by the critical curve. ..."
6. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"... used on the McKiernan- Terry T (Fig 32), is osculated by tappet action.
It is claimed it other tappet valves, it will not short-stroke so much thrown ..."
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