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Definition of Osculated

Osculated
Osculate Os"cu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Osculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Osculating.] [L. osculatus, p. p. of osculari to kiss, fr. osculum a little mouth, a kiss, dim. of os mouth. See Oral, and cf. Oscillate.] 1. To kiss. 2. (Geom.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.

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- vectors (position and velocity). The word osculate is Latin for "kiss". In mathematics, two curves osculate when they just touch, without (necessarily)...
- An osculating circle is a circle that best approximates the curvature of a curve at a specific point. It is tangent to the curve at that point and has...
- osculant, an invariant of hypersurfaces osculating circle osculating curve osculating plane osculating orbit osculating sphere The obsolete Quinarian system...
- line is an osculating curve from the family of lines, and has first-order contact with the given curve; an osculating circle is an osculating curve from...
- approximation to the ellipsoid in the vicinity of a given point is the Earth's osculating sphere. Its radius equals Earth's Gaussian radius of curvature, and its...
- In differential geometry, an osculating curve is a plane curve from a given family that has the highest possible order of contact with another curve. That...
- point. The word osculate is from Latin osculari 'to kiss'; an osculating plane is thus a plane which "kisses" a submanifold. The osculating plane in the...
- curvature at a point of a differentiable curve is the curvature of its osculating circle — that is, the circle that best approximates the curve near this...
- real trajectories can be modeled as a sequence of Keplerian orbits that osculate ("kiss" or touch) the real trajectory. They can also be described by the...
- the torsion of a curve measures how sharply it is twisting out of the osculating plane. Taken together, the curvature and the torsion of a space curve...