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Meaning of "osculant" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OSCULANT

From Latin ōsculārī to kiss.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF OSCULANT

ˈɒskjʊlənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OSCULANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Osculant is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OSCULANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Osculant

In mathematical invariant theory, the osculant or tacinvariant or tact invariant is an invariant of a hypersurface that vanishes if the hypersurface touches itself, or an invariant of several hypersurfaces that osculate, meaning that they have a common point where they meet to unusually high order.

Definition of osculant in the English dictionary

The definition of osculant in the dictionary is possessing some of the characteristics of two different taxonomic groups. Other definition of osculant is closely joined or adhering.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OSCULANT

ambulant · anticoagulant · deflocculant · esculent · feculent · flocculant · flocculent · fraudulent · gesticulant · inesculent · inoculant · interosculant · luculent · matriculant · opulent · simulant · stimulant · succulent · truculent · turbulent

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OSCULANT

oscillography · oscilloscope · oscilloscopic · oscine · oscinine · oscitance · oscitancies · oscitancy · oscitant · oscitantly · oscitate · oscitation · Osco-Umbrian · oscula · oscular · osculate · osculation · osculatory · oscule · osculum

WORDS THAT END LIKE OSCULANT

anovulant · capitulant · coagulant · congratulant · gratulant · immunostimulant · insulant · on a slant · petulant · plant · postulant · pustulant · repellant · somnambulant · stridulant · tintinnabulant · transplant · tremulant · ululant · undulant

Synonyms and antonyms of osculant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «osculant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OSCULANT

Find out the translation of osculant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of osculant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «osculant» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

接吻
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

osculant
570 millions of speakers
en

English

osculant
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

osculant
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

osculant
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

osculant
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

osculant
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

চুম্বনরত
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

oscillatoire
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Osculant
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

osculant
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

osculant
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

osculant
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Osculant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

osculant
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பொதுப் பண்புகளால் ஒத்திருக்கிற
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Osculant
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

öpen
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

osculatore
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

osculant
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

osculant
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

osculant
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

osculant
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

osculant
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

osculant
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

osculant
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of osculant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OSCULANT»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about osculant

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OSCULANT»

Discover the use of osculant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to osculant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Inversive Geometry
The isolated tangents from a point t of the cardioid to two osculant circles ((115)2( at1) and (at)2(at2) have the fixed clinant tl/tz. Thus as t describes (at)3, the lines of a rigid pencil on t describe the osculant circles. To obtain the envelope of ...
Frank Morley, 2014
2
Bézier and B-Spline Techniques
Then Pa(u) = P(u) + -(a - «)p'(u) n is a curve of degree n — 1 in u, called the first osculant of p at the knot a, see Figure 7.8 for an illustration. Figure 7.8: The first osculant of a curve. The second osculant of p is obtained by forming the first ...
Hartmut Prautzsch, Wolfgang Boehm, Marco Paluszny, 2002
3
Osculant: A Multiprocessor Self-Organizing Task Scheduler
Task and resource scheduling play an important role in improving the performance of virtually any network-based computing environment.
Fred Taylor, Florida univ gainesville dept of electrical and computer engineering, 1998
4
The Linguistic Typology and Representation of African Languages
°-kidang-/°-kang-: representative of an osculance paradigm In his chapter dedicated to 'osculant' comparative series (C.S.), Guthrie [1967:111] distinguishes between two types of 'osculant' clusters. (i) C.S. with identical connecting meanings ...
John M. Mugane, 2003
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Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery: 9th International ...
If a cover of an object M does not contain any osculant voxel, then it is minimal. Proof Let C(M) be a cover of M that does not contain osculant voxels, and let v be an arbitrary voxel from C(M). By definition of osculant voxel, the intersection Mv ...
Gunilla Borgefors, Ingela Nystr_m, Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, 2000
6
An Introduction to Entomology, Or, Elements of the Natural ...
From this tribe or Order he proposes to pass by Atractocerus to the osculant Order Strepsiptera, and from thence by Myrmecodes Latr. and the Ants to the Hymenoptera. From hence he next proceeds to his Tricboptera ; in which, as we have ...
William Kirby, William Spence, 1826
7
Magazine of natural history
{Dacnostomala, W.) {Anthiostomata, W.) Ord. Hymenoptera. Order Diptera. ? Osculant Order Strepsisptera. ? Osculant Order Homaloplera. Order Coleoptera. ? Osculant Order Aphaniptera. Osculant Order Euplexoplera. ? Order Orthoptera.
John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson, 1838
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An introduction to the modern classification of insects: ...
Osculant Ord. Strepsiptera. ? Osculant Ord. Homaloptera. Ord. Coleoptera. ? Osculant Ord. Aphaniptera." Osculant Ord. Euplexoptera (Earwig). Ord. Orthoptera. Ord. Heteroptera (including the Water Bugs). ? (Thrips?)f ? Ord. Neuroptera.
John Obadiah Westwood, 1839
9
The Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, ...
(Dacnostomaia, W.) (Anthiostomata, W.) Ord. Hymenoptera. Order Diptera. ? Osculant Order Strepsisptera. ? Osculant Order Homaloptera. Order Coleoptera. ? Osculant Order Aphaniptera. Osculant Order Euplexoptera. ? Order Orthoptera.
‎1838
10
Magazine of Natural History and Journal of Zoology, Botany, ...
{Dacnostomata, W.) {Anthiostomata, W.) Ord. Hymenoptera. Order Diptera. ? Osculant Order Strepsisptera. ? Osculant Order Homaloptera. Order Coleoptera. ? Osculant Order Aphaniptera. Osculant Order Euplexnptera. ? Order Orthoptera.
‎1838

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OSCULANT»

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osculant September 11, 2013 23:01 I don't know what saying this makes me, but I had to come here if only to tell you that you, Caitlyn, are a total babe. Simply ... «Huffington Post, Sep 13»
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