osculant
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Is osculant a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (zoology) Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.not-comparable
2. (biology) Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.Examples: "The genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera."not-comparable
3. (Bantu linguistics) Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.not-comparable
4. (geometry) Tangent, touching at a single point.not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (geometry) The point at which two tangent curves touch.
2. (algebra) The condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous quantics, is also the solution of the corresponding set of tangential quantics.
noun (English)
1. (mathematics) a form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in commonSynonyms: tacinvariant
Definition source: Wiktionary