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osculants

osculants is the plural of osculant.

Meaning of osculant

Noun

osculant (plural osculants)

  1. The point at which two tangent curves touch.
  2. The condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous quantics, is also the solution of the corresponding set of tangential quantics.
  3. a form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in common
    Synonyms:
    tacinvariant

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Questions about osculants

What is osculants the plural of?
Osculants is the plural of osculant.

Words near osculants in the dictionary

  1. OSCs
  2. OSCTT
  3. oscula
  4. osculance
  5. osculant
  6. osculants
  7. oscular
  8. oscularly
  9. osculate
  10. osculated
  11. osculates

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