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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In geometry, a point of a surface where the radii of curvature are all equal, and a sphere osculates the surface.
  • Same as umbilical.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete The navel; the center.
  • noun (Geom.) An umbilicus. See Umbilicus, 5 (b).
  • adjective (Anat.) See umbilical, 1.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or having a navel or umbilicus

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