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osculations

osculations is the plural of osculation.

Meaning of osculation

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.

Questions about osculations

What is osculations the plural of?
Osculations is the plural of osculation.

Words near osculations in the dictionary

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

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