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What does osculate mean?

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  1. (transitive) To kiss someone or something.
  2. (mathematics) To touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
  3. (intransitive) To make contact.
  4. (Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.
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If seven points on a twisted cubic be joined, two and two, by twenty-one lines, then any seven planes that contain these 21 lines will osculate a second cubic curve.
Because the perpendicularity of the IPS vibrating direction and welding stress setting direction minor chains of IPS and WP can osculate each other.

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