Usually means: Circle that best fits curve.
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  1. osculating circle: Merriam-Webster
  2. osculating circle: Vocabulary.com
  3. osculating circle: Wiktionary
  4. osculating circle: Dictionary.com
  5. Osculating circle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. osculating circle: Rhymezone
  7. osculating circle: FreeDictionary.org
  8. osculating circle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. osculating circle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. osculating circle: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Osculating Circle: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. osculating circle: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (osculating circle)

noun:  (geometry, for any point on a curve) The circle that has the same tangent, and the same curvature at the point on the curve.

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