osculate

V. be contiguous &c. adj.; join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

Obedient then to Nature's law, With her they did associate, Squeeze tiny hands and osculate; Her tresses curled in fashion saw, And oft in whispers would impart A maiden's secrets—of the heart.

From Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Henry Spalding

To find the equation of an osculating circle in two dimensions, we need find only the center and radius of the circle.

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Therefore, the radius of the osculating circle is given by R = 1 = 1.

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Figure 3.9 We want to find the osculating circle of this graph at the point where t = 1.

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Find the equation of the osculating circle of the helix defined by the function y = x3 − 3x + 1 at x = 1.

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The position and velocity being given in all three co-ordinates, a certain osculating plane is determined for each instant in which the planet is moving at that instant.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various