Osculate
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Osculate is a semi-archaic English word with several definitions.
- Often it means "to kiss", sometimes used in a "tongue-in-cheek" fashion.
- Its primary definition is "to bring, or come into, close contact of union".
- In mathematics, it means "to touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact". See osculating circle, osculating curve, and osculating orbit.
- An additional definition is "to bring into focus or tune, to attune".