Dictionary

osculation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌɑs.kjuˈleɪ.ʃən/ (General-American)
• /ˌɑs.kjəˈleɪ.ʃən/ (General-American)
• /ˌɒs.kjəˈleɪ.ʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌɒs.kjʊˈleɪ.ʃən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology

From Latin ōsculātiō (“a kissing”), from ōsculor (“to kiss”). By surface analysis, osculate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The action of kissing.
2. (countable, uncountable) A kiss.
   • The Major she held to be a sort of Bayard among Majors: and as for her son Arthur she worshipped that youth with an ardour which the young scapegrace accepted almost as coolly as the statue of the Saint in Saint Peter’s receives the rapturous osculations which the faithful deliver on his toe. 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Pedigree and Other Family Matters”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 15:
3. (countable, uncountable) A close contact.
4. (countable, uncountable) A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent.
5. (Vedic, countable, uncountable) The determination of whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.

Forms

Deriveds

oscnode

Relateds

osculum · osculate · oscular · osculatory · inosculation · interosculation

Translations (3)

pl styczność (a contact between curves or surfaces) · bg оскулация (a contact between curves or surfaces) · sv oskulation (a contact between curves or surfaces)