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Osculating
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 to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
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osculating
(context mathematics of a curve English) Having three or more points coincident with another v
(present participle of osculate English)
Usage examples of "osculating".
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.