Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of kissing.
- noun A kiss.
- noun Mathematics A contact, as between two curves or surfaces, at three or more common points.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kiss.
- noun In geometry, the contact between a curve and another which osculates it. See
osculate . - noun A point of undulation where a right line has four or more coincident points in common with a curve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of kissing; a kiss.
- noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The action of
kissing - noun A
kiss - noun A close
contact - noun mathematics A contact between
curves orsurfaces , at which point they have acommon tangent - noun Determining whether a number is
divisible by another by means of certain operations on itsdigits .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
- noun (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tish says our vulgar lip-osculation is unknown in the Orient and that they rub noses by way of greeting.
Tish 1916
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I've half a mind to ride back and have him out for that rascal "osculation" and the lady unwilling!
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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I've half a mind to ride back and have him out for that rascal "osculation" and the lady unwilling!
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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I've half a mind to ride back and have him out for that rascal "osculation" and the lady unwilling!
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Probably explaining inosculation in a letter to a gentleman in County Armagh is as close as I’ll ever get to any kind of osculation any more.
Reflections on drink and disappointment... Imogen 2009
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Before we get to that, a quick refresher on why we engage in a practice which involves the exchange of, by one estimate, 278 colonies of bacteria per osculation.
Kissing ewillett 2009
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Driving a vehicle over these roads creates a banging osculation from the base of the spine to the top of the neck, an experience that even John Yoo would characterize as torture.
Matthew Bergman: The Roads of Africa: Moving Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons Matthew Bergman 2010
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Driving a vehicle over these roads creates a banging osculation from the base of the spine to the top of the neck, an experience that even John Yoo would characterize as torture.
Matthew Bergman: The Roads of Africa: Moving Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons Matthew Bergman 2010
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So with sovereign ambition she steeled herself to the daily horrors of amphibian osculation.
PodCastle » PodCastle Miniature 22: The Kissing of Frogs 2008
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He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.
pterodactyl commented on the word osculation
It's a synonym for "kissing".
April 16, 2008
zombiesam commented on the word osculation
from latin "osculatio," the act of kissing.
October 2, 2009