Inosculation :: Inosculation (n.) The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc..
Interosculate :: Interosculate (v. i. & t.) To kiss together to touch. See Osculate.
Interosculate :: Interosculate (v. i. & t.) To have the character of, or to lie between, two distinct groups..
Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2..
Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To kiss one another; to kiss.
Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To touch closely. See Osculation, 2..
Osculate :: Osculate (v. i.) To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant..
Osculation :: Osculation (n.) The act of kissing; a kiss.
Osculation :: Osculation (n.) The contact of one curve with another, when the number of consecutive points of the latter through which the former passes suffices for the complete determination of the former curve..
Osculatory :: Osculatory (a.) Of or pertaining to kissing; kissing.
Osculatory :: Osculatory (a.) 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..
Osculatrix :: Osculatrix (n.) A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind..