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Definition of Osculating

Osculating
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.

Meaning of Osculating from wikipedia

- "kiss". An osculating orbit and the object's position upon it can be fully described by the six standard Kepler orbital elements (osculating elements)...
- with radius R is called the osculating circle to the curve γ at the point P. If C is a regular space curve then the osculating circle is defined in a similar...
- osculant, an invariant of hypersurfaces osculating circle osculating curve osculating plane osculating orbit osculating sphere The obsolete Quinarian system...
- 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...
- first-order contact with C. The osculating circle to C at p, the osculating curve from the family of circles. The osculating circle shares both its first...
- is the osculating plane to the curve at γ(s). The curvature has the following geometrical interpretation. There exists a circle in the osculating plane...
- 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...
- curvature at 0 is equal to κ(0). The osculating plane has the special property that the distance from the curve to the osculating plane is O(s3), while the distance...
- 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...
- at the point of tangency with its defining circle, which is also its osculating circle at that point. It also has two finite inflection points and one...