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Vocabulary Entry
osculate
|verb • noun
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V
verb
To touch or meet at one or more points; in mathematics, to intersect in a specified manner.
Example Sentences
"The two circles osculate at exactly one point."
"As the roller coaster descended, it seemed to osculate swiftly along the curves."
"In her poem, she described how their lives osculated under the moonlight."
N
noun
An act of osculating; a point of intersection.
Example Sentences
"In geometry, the osculate is crucial for understanding the behavior of curves."
"The osculate of the two graphs gave insight into their relationship."
"During the experiment, the osculate was observed under a microscope."