Osculatory — Defs

01 a. Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.

1.
Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.
2.
Pertaining to, or having the properties of, an osculatrix; capable of osculation; as, a circle may be osculatory with a curve, at a given point.(Geom.)

Phrases & compounds

Osculatory circle — See Osculating circle of a curve, under Circle.

Osculatory plane — a plane which passes through three successive points of the curve.

Osculatory sphere — (to a line of double curvature), a sphere passing through four consecutive points of the curve.

02 n. Same as Pax, 2.