osculating in English

verb
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.
As a child I dreaded extended family occasions because of the endless osculating it entailed.
verb

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1. Osculating Circle

2. Osculating circle at this point

3. Osculating circle of this curve

4. Osculating circle of a curve at a point

5. The center of the osculating circle to a curve

6. Binormal definition, the normal to a curve, lying perpendicular to the osculating plane at a given point on the curve

7. The colour photographs taken by the author prove that it was a circular halo of 22 degrees, circumscribed by a doubly osculating oval, as theoretically studied byA.

8. Binormal definition is - the normal to a twisted curve at a point of the curve that is perpendicular to the osculating plane of the curve at that point.