What's the difference between osculatory and osculatrix?

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.

Osculatrix


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.

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