Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The envelop of the osculating planes of a non-plane curve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geom.) A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry A
curve whosecontact with a given curve at a givenpoint is of a higherorder (or involves theequality of a greater number of successivedifferential coefficients of theordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.
Etymologies
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New Latin.
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Despite the varieties of beards and mustachios, never will you hear from your osculatrix the source of her knowledge of that variety.
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