osculation
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ōsculātiō (“a kissing”), from osculor (“I kiss”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌɒs.kjʊˈleɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɒs.kjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌɑs.kjuˈleɪ.ʃən/, /ˌɑs.kjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
editosculation (countable and uncountable, plural osculations)
- The action of kissing.
- A kiss.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- The Major she held to be a sort of Bayard among Majors: and as for her son Arthur she worshipped that youth with an ardour which the young scapegrace accepted almost as coolly as the statue of the Saint in Saint Peter’s receives the rapturous osculations which the faithful deliver on his toe.
- A close contact.
- (mathematics) A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent.
- (Vedic arithmetic) Determining whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.
Related terms
editTranslations
edita contact between curves or surfaces
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French
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editosculation f (plural osculations)
Further reading
edit- “osculation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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