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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Osculatory

Os′cu·la·to·ry (·lȧ·tō·ry̆), a. 1. Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing. "The osculatory ceremony." Thackeray.

2. (Geom.) Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point.

Osculatory circle. (Geom.) See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle. — Osculatory plane (to a curve of double curvature), a plane which passes through three successive points of the curve. — Osculatory sphere (to a line of double curvature), a sphere passing through four consecutive points of the curve.

Os′cu·la·to·ry, n. [LL. osculatorium. See Osculate.] (R. C. Ch.) Same as Pax, 2.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.