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What is the noun for osculating?

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osculation
  1. The action of kissing
  2. A kiss
  3. A close contact
  4. (mathematics) A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent
  5. (Vedic arithmetic) Determining whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “I think I am able to assure the reader that in her head the osculation had given birth to no reveries.”
      “In kissing a girl whose experience with osculation is limited, it is a good think to work up to the kissing of the lips.”
      “Acts of osculation have of course been known to sweep people off their feet.”
osculator
  1. (Vedic arithmetic) An algorithm for performing osculation.
  2. (mathematics) A circle of osculation.
  3. Someone who kisses.
osculatrix
  1. (geometry) 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.
osculatory
  1. (Christianity) A religious tablet, usually carrying a representation of Christ or the Virgin Mary, which is kissed by the priest during the Mass ("kiss of peace"); it is then passed to others at the mass who also kiss it.
  2. Synonyms:
osculations
osculatories
  1. plural of osculatory
  2. Synonyms:
osculatrices
  1. plural of osculatrix
osculators
  1. plural of osculator
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