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Osculate

Os′cu-late

,
Verb.
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.

Os′cu-late

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To kiss one another; to kiss.
2.
(Geom.)
To touch closely. See
Osculation
, 2.
3.
(Biol.)
To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See
Osculant
.

Definition 2024

osculate

osculate

English

Verb

osculate ‎(third-person singular simple present osculates, present participle osculating, simple past and past participle osculated)

  1. (transitive) To kiss someone or something.
  2. (mathematics) To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
  3. (intransitive) To make contact.
  4. (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.

Derived terms

Italian

Verb

osculate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of osculare
  2. second-person plural imperative of osculare
  3. feminine plural of osculato

Latin

Participle

ōsculāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of ōsculātus

Pronunciation

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