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Osculatory :: Osculatory (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..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To kiss.

Osculatrixes :: Osculatrixes (pl. ) of Osculatri.

Inosculating :: Inosculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inosculat.

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. i.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose..

Osculatrix :: Osculatrix (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..

Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging..

Umbilicus :: Umbilicus (n.) A point of a surface at which the curvatures of the normal sections are all equal to each other. A sphere may be osculatory to the surface in every direction at an umbilicus. Called also umbilic.

Anastomosis :: Anastomosis (n.) The inosculation of vessels, or intercommunication between two or more vessels or nerves, as the cross communication between arteries or veins..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To kiss one another; to kiss.

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. t.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two vessels in an animal body..

Osculated :: Osculated (imp. & p. p.) of Osculat.

Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2..

Osculatory :: Osculatory (a.) Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.

Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2..

Adosculation :: Adosculation (n.) Impregnation by external contact, without intromission..

Osculant :: Osculant (a.) Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera..

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. i.) To intercommunicate; to interjoin.

Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. t.) To unite intimately; to cause to become as one.

Osculating :: Osculating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Osculat.

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