osculation

Other forms of osculation

plural

osculations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about osculation

What does osculation mean?

osculation means "(mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in osculation?

osculation has 5 syllables: o-scu-la-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for osculation?

Close synonyms include kiss, buss. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is osculation a common word?

osculation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.