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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
Figure 3.10 The osculating circle has radius R = 1/6.
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Figure 3.9 We want to find the osculating circle of this graph at the point where t = 1.
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Find the equation of the osculating circle of the helix defined by the function y = x3 − 3x + 1 at x = 1.
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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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When a point of such a curve is given, the osculating plane is determined, hence all the curves through a given point with the same tangent have the same torsion.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
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