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Definitions of osculant:
  • adjective:   Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
  • adjective:   (zoology) Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
  • adjective:   (biology) Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
  • adjective:   (Bantu linguistics) Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
  • noun:   (mathematics) a form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in common

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