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Definition of Osculant

Osculant
Osculant Os"cu*lant, a. [L. osculans, -antis, p. pr. of osculari to kiss. See Osculate.] 1. Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars. 3. (Biol.) 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.

Meaning of Osculant from wikipedia

- In mathematical invariant theory, the osculant or tacinvariant or tact invariant is an invariant of a hypersurface that vanishes if the hypersurface touches...
- meaning to touch (from the Latin osculum meaning kiss), may refer to: osculant, an invariant of hypersurfaces osculating circle osculating curve osculating...
- adosculation, inosculate, inosculation, interosculate, intraoral, oral, ****, osculant, osculum, peroral ora- pray, plead Latin orare "to pray, plead" adore,...
- oral, oration, orator, oratorio, oratory, ****, oscitate, oscitation, osculant, oscular, oscularity, osculate, osculation, osculator, osculatory, osculatrix...
- adosculation, inosculate, inosculation, interosculate, intraoral, oral, ****, osculant, osculum, peroral ora- pray, plead Latin orare "to pray, plead" adore,...
- Illae dum pergunt concite apostolis hoc dicere,  videntes eum vivere osculant pedes Domini. 8. Quo agnito discipuli in Galilaeam propere  pergunt videre...
- according to a character of a group, as opposed to an absolute invariant. osculant An invariant of several forms of the same degree generalizing the tact-invariant...