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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
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
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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To find the equation of an osculating circle in two dimensions, we need find only the center and radius of the circle.
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Therefore, the radius of the osculating circle is given by R = 1 = 1.
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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