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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
OSCULATRIX
Os
`
cu
*
la
"trix, n.;
pl.
Osculatrixes.
Etym:
[
NL.
] (Geom.)
Defn: 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.
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