Osculate Definition
ŏskyə-lāt
osculated, osculates, osculating
verb
osculating
To kiss.
Webster's New World
To have three or more points coincident with.
American Heritage
To come together; contact.
American Heritage
(mathematics) To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
Wiktionary
(Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
Wiktionary
Origin of Osculate
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Latin ōsculārī ōsculāt- from ōsculum kiss diminutive of ōs mouth ōs- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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