osculation

• Sustantivo que designa el acto de besar o acariciar con los labios, y en matemáticas, el contacto entre dos curvas o superficies en un punto donde comparten una tangente común.

A noun referring to the act of kissing or caressing with the lips, or in mathematics, the contact between two curves or surfaces at a point where they share a common tangent.

1. Mathematical contactC2formalscientific

   A contact between two curves or surfaces at a point where they share a common tangent.

   Osculación (matemática)

   • The osculation of the two curves occurs at the point of tangency.
   • In differential geometry, osculation describes a higher-order contact between surfaces.
   • The mathematician studied the osculation of the parabola and the circle.

   Sinónimoscontacttangency

2. C2formal

   The act of kissing or caressing with the lips.

   beso

   • Their tender osculation was a moment of pure affection.
   • The poem described a gentle osculation under the moonlight.
   • In Victorian literature, osculation was often described with poetic restraint.

   Sinónimosembracekisskissingpecksmooch