(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Segments of silicone rubber tube were suspended between rigid pipes and subjected to slowly varying transmural pressure covering a range from slight distension to collapse with osculation.
(2) Whether to please director Yash Chopra, or simply taking the chance of getting closer to Katrina Kaif, we shall never know, but kiss Katrina he did – three times … Simple osculation can still cause quite a stir in Bollywood.
(3) A study of the geometric anatomy of the aortoiliac region in 14 male and 12 female cadavers revealed that the right common iliac take-off angle was wider than the left and the radius of curvature of the right osculating circle at the aortoiliac bifurcation was smaller than the left, with the asymmetry of the region being much more marked in males than in females.
Osculatory
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.
(a.) Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point.
(n.) Same as Pax, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) This profession, once thought unnecessary, has now become a massive youth employment scheme with starred firsts in osculatory medicine.