English-Thai Dictionary
osculate
VI สัมผัส ใกล้ชิด sam-pad-kai-chid
osculate
VT สัมผัส ใกล้ชิด sam-pad-kai-chid
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
OSCULATE
Os "cu *late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Osculated; p. pr. & vb. n.Osculating.] Etym: [L. osculatus, p. p. of osculari to kiss, fr. osculum a little mouth, a kiss, dim. of os mouth. See Oral, and cf. Oscillate. ]
1. To kiss.
2. (Geom.)
Defn: To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
OSCULATE
OSCULATE Os "cu *late, v. i.
1. To kiss one another; to kiss.
2. (Geom.)
Defn: To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.
3. (Biol.)
Defn: To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
New American Oxford Dictionary
osculate
os cu late |ˈäskyəˌlāt ˈɑskjəleɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 Mathematics (of a curve or surface ) touch (another curve or surface ) so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact: (as adj. osculating ) : the plots have been drawn using osculating orbital elements. 2 formal or humorous kiss. DERIVATIVES os cu lant |-lənt |adjective, os cu la tion |ˌäskyəˈlāSHən |noun, os cu la to ry |-ləˌtôrē |adjective ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin osculat- ‘kissed, ’ from the verb osculari, from osculum ‘little mouth or kiss. ’
Oxford Dictionary
osculate
osculate |ˈɒskjʊleɪt | ▶verb [ with obj. ] 1 Mathematics (of a curve or surface ) touch (another curve or surface ) so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact. 2 formal or humorous kiss. DERIVATIVES osculant adjective, osculation noun, osculatory |ˈɒskjʊlət (ə )ri |adjective ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin osculat- ‘kissed ’, from the verb osculari, from osculum ‘little mouth or kiss ’.
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