osculant (Meaning)
osculant (a.)
Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging.
Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars.
Intermediate in character, or on the border, between two genera, groups, families, etc., of animals or plants, and partaking somewhat of the characters of each, thus forming a connecting link; interosculant; as, the genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.
Synonyms & Antonyms of osculant
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osculant Sentence Examples
- The two curves are osculant at their point of intersection.
- The kissing curves were osculant at a single point.
- The osculant plane to the surface touches it at only one point.
- The osculant circle to the parabola approximates its shape locally.
- The osculant sphere to the ellipsoid is tangent to it at a point.
- The osculant cone to the hyperboloid is formed by the tangents at a point.
- The osculant surfaces of two touching manifolds are tangent at a point.
- The osculant curve to the path of a projectile is a parabola.
- The osculant plane to a helix is perpendicular to its tangent.
- The osculating cubic of a function is its Taylor expansion up to the third order.
FAQs About the word osculant
Kissing; hence, meeting; clinging., Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creeping animals, as caterpillars., Intermediate in character, or on the
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The two curves are osculant at their point of intersection.
The kissing curves were osculant at a single point.
The osculant plane to the surface touches it at only one point.
The osculant circle to the parabola approximates its shape locally.
