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Osculatrix

Osˊcu-la′trix

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Noun.
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pl.
Osculatrixes
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[NL.]
(Geom.)
A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.

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osculatrix

osculatrix

English

Noun

osculatrix (plural osculatrices)

  1. (geometry) A curve whose contact with a given curve at a given point is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.