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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 orumbilicus
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