adj, noun — 8 senses
Etymology From Latin osculans, osculantis, present participle of osculari (“to kiss”). See osculate.
Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
Biology, Natural sciences Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
Bantu linguistics
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Tangent, touching at a single point.
Etymology From Latin osculans, osculantis, present participle of osculari (“to kiss”). See osculate.
Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences The point at which two tangent curves touch.
Algebra, Mathematics, Sciences The condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous quantics, is also the solution of the corresponding set of tangential quantics.
Etymology From Latin osculans, osculantis, present participle of osculari (“to kiss”). See osculate.
Mathematics, Sciences a form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in common
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