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osculate 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈäskyəˌlāt/,
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osculated, past participle; osculated, past tense; osculates, 3rd person singular present; osculating, present participle;
  1. (of a curve or surface) Touch (another curve or surface) so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact
    • - the plots have been drawn using osculating orbital elements
  2. Kiss

  1. be intermediate between two taxonomic groups; "These species osculate"
  2. have at least three points in common with; "one curve osculates the other"; "these two surfaces osculate"
  3. snog: touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room"
  4. (osculation) (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent
  5. (osculation) kiss: the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
  6. A kiss is the act of pressing one's lips against the lips or other body parts of another. Cultural connotations of kissing vary widely. A kiss may be used to express sentiments of love, passion, affection, respect, greeting, friendship, and good luck, among many others. ...
  7. In mathematics and geometry, an osculating curve is an extension of the concept of tangent. A tangent line to a curve is the straight line that shares the location and direction of the curve, while an osculating circle to the same curve shares the location, direction, and curvature.
  8. (Osculation) In mathematics, contact of order k of functions is an equivalence relation, corresponding to having the same value at a point P and also the same derivatives there, up to order k. The equivalence classes are generally called jets. The point of osculation is also called the double cusp.
  9. To kiss someone or something; To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact; To make contact; To perform osculation
  10. to kiss; also, to touch or contact (as geometric figures)