Crossword clues for osculation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Osculation \Os`cu*la"tion\, n. [L. osculatio a kissing: cf. F. osculation.]
The act of kissing; a kiss.
(Geom.) 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.
--Brande & C.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"kissing; a kiss," 1650s, from Latin osculationem (nominative osculatio), noun of action from past participle stem of osculari (see osculate).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of kissing 2 A kiss 3 A close contact 4 (context mathematics English) A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent 5 (context Vedic arithmetic English) Determining whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.
WordNet
Usage examples of "osculation".
Lisa with a kiss that was more akin to mouth to mouth resuscitation than osculation, she repeated the performance on him.
She kissed him rapturously, first on one cheek, then on the other, and Dan reflected that this Gallic form of osculation had evidently been learned from old Gaston of the Beard.
Just about the time she outgrew the unpleasant chore of kissing her New England aunts and grandmothers, and could get a little selective in her osculation, she married me and moved to New Mexico, where, she discovered to her horror, it was her social duty to take on all corners.
She was delighted at the prominence which Sam had achieved, and saw him mentioned as a candidate for President with pride and gratification, but she did not see how that excused his promiscuous osculation of the female population of the country, and she determined that it should cease.
Emboldened by this and encouraged by the Americans, local film studios ventured to add osculation to their own repertoire.
The last ten pages though -- They described a series of faintly familiar circuits, reminding him of a dual frequency crystal calibrator of extremely high osculation.
In those days it was not permitted for lover‑boys and their leading ladies to touch one another on screen, for fear that their osculations might corrupt the nation's youth… but thirty‑three minutes after the beginning of The Lovers the premiere audience began to give off a low buzz of shock, because Pia and Nayyar had begun to kiss‑not one another‑but things.
We overflew a new terrain, a great prairie of huge tubeworms, their ciliated mouths making incessant, lascivious osculations.