different between osculation vs osculate

English

Etymology

From Latin ?scul?ti? (“a kissing”), from osculor (“I kiss”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??s.kj??le?.??n/, /??s.kj??le?.??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??s.kju?le?.??n/, /??s.kj??le?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

osculation (countable and uncountable, plural osculations)

1. The action of kissing
2. A kiss
3. A close contact
4. (mathematics) A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent
5. (Vedic arithmetic) Determining whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.

Related terms

• oscular
• osculate
• osculatory
• osculum

Translations

English

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Latin ?scul?tus (“kiss”), from ?s + -culus (“little mouth”).

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.
5. To form a connecting link between two genera.

Derived terms

• osculation
• osculating
• osculatory

Adjective

osculate (not comparable)

1. Relating to kissing.

Anagrams

• lacteous, locustae, scale out, scaleout

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

?scul?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?scul?tus