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osculation

UK/ˌɒs.kjʊˈleɪ.ʃən//ˌɑs.kjuˈleɪ.ʃən/

osculation noun: the action of kissing.

osculation: the action of kissing
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Noun

osculation (countable and uncountable, plural osculations)

  1. The action of kissing.
  2. A kiss.
    • The Major she held to be a sort of Bayard among Majors: and as for her son Arthur she worshipped that youth with an ardour which the young scapegrace accepted almost as coolly as the statue of the Saint in Saint Peter’s receives the rapturous osculations which the faithful deliver on his toe.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Pedigree and Other Family Matters”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC...
  3. A close contact.
  4. A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent.
  5. (Vedic) The determination of whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.

osculation meaning in Tamil and Kannada

osculation in Tamil

கொஞ்சல்

osculation in Kannada

ಸಮಾನಲಕ್ಷಣತೆ, ಚುಂಬನ

Forms of osculation

pluralosculations

Origin of osculation

From Latin ōsculātiō (“a kissing”), from ōsculor (“to kiss”). By surface analysis, osculate + -ion.

Words formed from osculation

Words that rhyme with osculation

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Questions about osculation

What does osculation mean?
Osculation means the action of kissing.
What is osculation in Tamil?
Osculation in Tamil is கொஞ்சல். See Osculation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is osculation?
Osculation is a noun.
How do you pronounce osculation?
Osculation is pronounced /ˌɒs.kjʊˈleɪ.ʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of osculation?
The plural of osculation is osculations.

Words near osculation in the dictionary

  1. osculating
  2. osculating circle
  3. osculating circles
  4. osculating orbit
  5. osculating orbits
  6. osculation
  7. osculations
  8. osculator
  9. osculatories
  10. osculators
  11. osculatory

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Adapted from Wiktionary: osculation (page history and authors); osculation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); osculation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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