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Definition of Osculate

Osculate
Osculate Os"cu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Osculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Osculating.] [L. osculatus, p. p. of osculari to kiss, fr. osculum a little mouth, a kiss, dim. of os mouth. See Oral, and cf. Oscillate.] 1. To kiss. 2. (Geom.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
Osculate
Osculate Os"cu*late, v. i. 1. To kiss one another; to kiss. 2. (Geom.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2. 3. (Biol.) To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.

Meaning of Osculate from wikipedia

- osculant, an invariant of hypersurfaces osculating circle osculating curve osculating plane osculating orbit osculating sphere The obsolete Quinarian system...
- In astronomy, and in particular in astrodynamics, the osculating orbit of an object in space at a given moment in time is the gravitational Kepler orbit...
- An osculating circle is a circle that best approximates the curvature of a curve at a specific point. It is tangent to the curve at that point and has...
- In mathematics, particularly in differential geometry, an osculating plane is a plane in a Euclidean space or affine space which meets a submanifold at...
- In differential geometry, an osculating curve is a plane curve from a given family that has the highest possible order of contact with another curve. That...
- approximation to the ellipsoid in the vicinity of a given point is the Earth's osculating sphere. Its radius equals Earth's Gaussian radius of curvature, and its...
- curvature at a point of a differentiable curve is the curvature of its osculating circle, that is the circle that best approximates the curve near this...
- line is an osculating curve from the family of lines, and has first-order contact with the given curve; an osculating circle is an osculating curve from...
- time standard is called Barycentric Coordinate Time (TCB). Barycentric osculating orbital elements for some objects in the Solar System are as follows:...
- points respectively of a body's direct orbit around the Sun. Comparing osculating elements at a specific epoch to effectively those at a different epoch...