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Definition of Osculation

1. Noun. (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent.

2. Noun. The act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof).

Definition of Osculation

1. n. The act of kissing; a kiss.

Definition of Osculation

1. Noun. The action of kissing ¹

2. Noun. A kiss ¹

3. Noun. A close contact ¹

4. Noun. (mathematics) A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent ¹

5. Noun. (context: Vedic arithmetic) Determining whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Osculation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Osculation

1. 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. Origin: L. Osculatio a kissing: cf. F. Osculation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Osculation

oscitate oscitated oscitates oscitating oscitation oscitations oscula osculant oscular osculate

osculated osculates osculating osculating circle osculating orbit osculation (current term) osculations osculator osculatories osculators

osculatory osculatrices osculatrix oscule oscules osculum ose oseltamivir oses osetra

Literary usage of Osculation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The plane through the tangent perpendicular to the plane of osculation is called the plane of rectification at P. The normal plane, the plane of osculation ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"If osculation of the hare's foot is an apt penalti on tardy diners-out, ita postprandial specific is ai equally just reward to punctual convives. ..."

3. A Treatise on the Differential Calculus by William Walton (1846)
"Point of osculation. 120. A point of osculation is a multiple point in which the several branches of ... Thus cusps are a species of points of osculation. ..."

4. A Treatise on the Analytical Geometry of the Point, Line, Circle, and Conic by John Casey (1893)
"Through any point aß in the plane of a conic can le drawn four chords of osculation, and the points of osculation on the conic a/re coney clic. Dem. ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1870)
"... and when AV is positive, the curvature is concavo-convex. On Conic osculation. By PW NEWMAN. The topic was treated from the general equation ..."

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