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Kiss, for the fancy
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osculate
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics, osculate , meaning to touch (from the Latin osculum meaning kiss ), may refer to: osculant , an invariant of hypersurfaces. osculating circle osculating curve osculating plane osculating orbit The obsolete Quinarian system of biological ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to kiss," 1650s, from Latin osculatus , past participle of osculari "to kiss," from osculum "a kiss; pretty mouth, sweet mouth," literally "little mouth," diminutive of os "mouth" (see oral ). Related: Osculated ; osculating .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To kiss someone or something. 2 (context mathematics English) To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact. 3 (context intransitive English) To make contact. 4 (context Vedic arithmetic English) To perform ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Osculate \Os"cu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Osculated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Osculating .] [L. osculatus, p. p. of osculari to kiss, fr. osculum a little mouth, a kiss, dim. of os mouth. See Oral , and cf. Oscillate .] To kiss. (Geom.) To touch closely, so as ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate" have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate" touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body ...
Usage examples of osculate.
Peppy sat at his elbow, ready to osculate his rectum should he take a notion to bend over.
The curves flirt and osculate with one another in some pattern that is, Waterhouse guesses, deeply fascinating and significant but too challenging for his tired mind to attack.
A gangtube extended itself from otherwise bare masonry and osculated the airlock.
Then he dramatically presented the new, osculating elements (as he called them) of our instantaneous trajectory.
Somewhere in the recesses of my mind I must have stored the information that defines the term osculating element, but I luckily didn't need to fetch it.