Osculatory /(?)/

Os·cu·la·to·ry

Osculatory

a.
  1. Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.
  2. Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point. (Geom.)

Phrases & Compounds
Osculatory circle
See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle.
Osculatory plane
a plane which passes through three successive points of the curve.
Osculatory sphere
(to a line of double curvature), a sphere passing through four consecutive points of the curve.

Osculatory

n.
  1. Same as Pax, 2. (R. C. Ch.)