Category:Osculatrix

Os`cu*la"trix, n.; pl. Osculatrixes. Etym: [nl.] (geom.)

Defn: a curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is Of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of Successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves Taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.