Sekirov Dictionary

osculant

adjective4

  1. Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
  2. Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
  3. Tangent, touching at a single point.
  4. Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.

noun3

  1. The point at which two tangent curves touch.
  2. The condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous quantics, is also the solution of the corresponding set of tangential quantics.
  3. a form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in common
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osculants

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