Category:Osculatory

Os"cu*la*to*ry, a.

1. Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing. "the osculatory ceremony." Thackeray.

2. (geom.)

Defn: pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; Capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, At a given point. Osculatory circle. (geom.) See osculating circle of A curve, under circle. -- osculatory plane (to a curve of double curvature), a plane which Passes through three successive points of the curve. -- osculatory sphere (to a line of double curvature), a sphere Passing through four consecutive points of the curve.

Osculatory Os"cu*la*to*ry, n. Etym: [ll. osculatorium. See osculate.] (r. C. Ch.)

Defn: same as pax, 2.