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V. be contiguous &c. adj.; join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
Obedient then to Nature's law, With her they did associate, Squeeze tiny hands and osculate; Her tresses curled in fashion saw, And oft in whispers would impart A maiden's secrets—of the heart.
From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding
Lat, the plane determined by the vectors T and N forms the osculating plane of C at any point P on the curve.
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The osculating circle is tangent to a curve at a point and has the same curvature as the tangent curve at that point.
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Figure 3.10 The osculating circle has radius R = 1/6.
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Figure 3.8 In this osculating circle, the circle is tangent to curve C at point P and shares the same curvature.
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For the osculating circle at any point includes the whole of the curve which lies beyond; and the successive convolutions envelop one another without intersection.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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