osculation
nounUK /ˌɒs.kjʊˈleɪ.ʃən/ · US /ˌɑs.kjuˈleɪ.ʃən/
Etymology From Latin ōsculātiō (“a kissing”), from ōsculor (“to kiss”). By surface analysis, osculate + -ion.
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The action of kissing.
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A kiss.
- The Major she held to be a sort of Bayard among Majors: and as for her son Arthur she worshipped that youth with an ardour which the young scapegrace accepted almost as coolly as the statue of the Saint in Saint Peter’s receives the rapturous osculations which the faithful deliver on his toe.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Pedigree and Other Family Matters”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 15:
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A close contact.
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Mathematics, Sciences A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent.
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Arithmetic Vedic The determination of whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.
- Derived terms
- oscnode
- Related terms
- inosculation, interosculation, oscular, osculate, osculatory, osculum