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Meaning of "osculatory" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OSCULATORY

osculatory  [ˈɒskjʊlətərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OSCULATORY

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

WHAT DOES OSCULATORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of osculatory in the English dictionary

The definition of osculatory in the dictionary is of or relating to the point at which two branches of a curve have a common tangent, each branch extending in both directions of the tangent. Other definition of osculatory is the act or an instance of kissing.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OSCULATORY


ambulatory
ˈæmbjʊlətərɪ
condolatory
kənˈdəʊlətərɪ
confabulatory
kənˈfæbjʊlətərɪ
deambulatory
diːˈæmbjʊlətərɪ
dilatory
ˈdɪlətərɪ
ejaculatory
ɪˈdʒækjʊlətərɪ
emasculatory
ɪˈmæskjʊlətərɪ
funambulatory
fjuːˈnæmbjʊlətərɪ
interjaculatory
ˌɪntəˈdʒækjʊlətərɪ
manipulatory
məˈnɪpjʊlətərɪ
modulatory
ˈmɒdjʊlətərɪ
osmoregulatory
ˌɒzməʊˈrɛɡjʊlətərɪ
ovulatory
ˈɒvjʊlətərɪ
perambulatory
pəˈræmbjʊlətərɪ
preovulatory
priːˈɒvjʊlətərɪ
simulatory
ˈsɪmjʊlətərɪ
speculatory
ˈspɛkjʊlətərɪ
stimulatory
ˈstɪmjʊlətərɪ
stipulatory
ˈstɪpjʊlətərɪ
undulatory
ˈʌndjʊlətərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OSCULATORY

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE OSCULATORY

anti-inflammatory
circulatory
conservatory
defamatory
derogatory
directory
discriminatory
explanatory
exploratory
inflammatory
laboratory
mandatory
obligatory
observatory
oscillatory
participatory
predatory
preparatory
regulatory
research laboratory
respiratory

Synonyms and antonyms of osculatory in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «osculatory» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OSCULATORY

Find out the translation of osculatory to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of osculatory from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «osculatory» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

切触
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

osculante
570 millions of speakers

English

osculatory
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

osculatory
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

osculatory
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

osculatory
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

osculatory
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

osculatory
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

osculateur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Osculatory
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Krümmungs
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

osculatory
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

osculatory
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Osculatory
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

osculatory
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

osculatory
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विषारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

osculatory
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

combaciante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

osculatory
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

osculatory
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

osculatory
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

osculatory
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

osculatory
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

osculatory
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

osculatory
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of osculatory

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OSCULATORY»

The term «osculatory» is used very little and occupies the 179.614 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OSCULATORY» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OSCULATORY»

Discover the use of osculatory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to osculatory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin
THEOREM 4.3. A packing of U is osculatory if and only if it is locally osculatory. Proof. Necessity is clear. Sufficiency follows from the compactness of U . For if C is a locally osculatory packing then to every point x in U there corresponds a ...
2
Mathematical Dictionary and Cyclopedia of Mathematical ...
may be in the from these the values of a, /? and R deduced, which, being substituted assumed equation of the circle, will render it the equation of an osculatory circle to a given curve, at the point whose co-ordinates are x" and y". But in most ...
Charles Davies, 1872
3
Chaos and Fractals: A Computer Graphical Journey
Chaos and Graphics This note provides several simple recipes for graphically interesting structures based on the osculatory packing of finite areas using circles and spheres. The problem of covering a finite area with a given set of circles has  ...
C.A. Pickover, 1998
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Mathematical Dictionary and Cyclopedia of Mathematical ...
Ft$ -(% 11y“ I! 1 + "7 dz I day _ ' (3); “ " y' — fi ' from these the values of a, [3 and B may be deduced, which, being substituted in the assumed equation of the circle, will render it the equation of an osculatory circle to a given curve, at the point ...
Charles DAVIES (LL.D., and PECK (William Guy)), William Guy PECK, 1857
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Canadian Journal of Mathematics
A complete packing of U is a sequence of disjoint TV-spheres C = {Sn\ which are contained in U and whose total volume equals that of U. In an osculatory packing, the spheres are chosen recursively so that for all n larger than a certain value ...
6
A COURSE OF MATHEMATICS
The expression r = + (1 + pa) belongs therefore to the radius of the osculatory 9 circle for every point of the proposed curve whose co-ordinates are x and y. The double sign, which relates to the opposite position of two radii together forming a  ...
OLINTHUS GREGORY, LL.D. F.R.A.S., 1837
7
The Demography and Epidemiology of Human Health and Aging
... deaths and population up to about age 84 and interpolates these totals into single ages by an osculatory interpolation formula such as Sprague's fifth- difference osculatory formula or Beers' ordinary fifth-difference osculatory formula .3 Death ...
Jacob S. Siegel, Stuart Jay Olshansky, 2011
8
Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940: United States ...
Osculatory interpolation formulas used The osculatory interpolation formula used for the main body of the life tables in this volume was Jenkins' modified fifth difference formula.42 The word "modified" in the name of this formula indicates that, ...
Thomas Nall Eden Greville, 1946
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin
An osculatory packing is one in which the spheres Sn are chosen recursively so that from a certain point on Sn+l is the largest possible sphere contained in Rn= t/ \U2=i S£. (Here S~ will denote the closure of a set S). We give here a simple ...
10
André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics
The study of os- culatory curves was a common topic in early nineteenth-century analytic geometry; in general, given any curve, an osculatory curve is one that intersects the given curve at a single point. Ampere pointed out that the circle is not ...
James R. Hofmann, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OSCULATORY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term osculatory is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Heaving bosoms and joyous endings conquer Capitol Hill
And now their women crave a similar osculatory sensation? This is what women appear to want, and they haven't even mentioned the ... «Washington Post, Feb 15»
2
Madame Claude and Her High-Profile Client List: John Kennedy, de …
At Ma Maison she knew everyone, but she warned me, with my imagination now in overdrive, not to read anything into her osculatory greetings with Jacqueline ... «Vanity Fair, Aug 14»
3
Organs of democracy
White-coated worthies walked about, minds fixated on olfactory nerves and mitral valves and osculatory organs. Before we could see much of ... «Business Standard, Aug 14»
4
A long and pleasurable life awaits in the Morvan
... their osculatory rights, known here as la bise. If a lady is at all personable, several sprightly old buffers will queue up twice for the privilege. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 14»
5
Slideshow: Bollywood's most passionate liplocks of 2013
ApunKaChoice brings you all the steamy moments of osculatory passion in this slider. What's chemistry between two onscreen lovers unless ... «Apun Ka Choice, Dec 13»
6
French etiquette: 'To kiss or not to kiss'? That is the question
All 50 members claim their osculatory rights. If the lady is at all personable, several sprightly old buffers will queue up twice for the privilege. «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 13»
7
The Bachelor, Episode 3: Lessons From the World's Longest On …
This would be the time to grab your Bachelor by the base of his skull, mash your faces together in an act of osculatory abandon somewhat ... «Grantland, Jan 13»
8
Carsten Holler and the Slippery Slope of Relational Aesthetics
It's like explaining that you're going to kiss someone because you want to "explore the dynamics of osculatory expression." The radicalism of ... «Huffington Post, Feb 12»
9
Last night's viewing - How to Grow a Planet, BBC2; Jo Brand on …
Jo Brand on Kissing was a classic example of Google-powered television – a loose miscellany of osculatory bits and pieces glued together with ... «The Independent, Feb 12»
10
Five Questions on American Idol Week 2: Aspen Auditions
... Text Off the Threatening Hotties round), her get-to-Hollywood-at-all-costs osculatory bribery of the most manipulable judge. I'm going to enjoy ... «Grantland, Jan 12»

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