Definitions from Wiktionary (osculant)

▸ adjective:  Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
▸ adjective:  (zoology) Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
▸ adjective:  (biology) Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
▸ adjective:  (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.
▸ adjective:  (geometry) Tangent, touching at a single point.
▸ noun:  (geometry) The point at which two tangent curves touch.
▸ noun:  (algebra) The condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous quantics, is also the solution of the corresponding set of tangential quantics.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) a form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in common



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