osculant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
2. sıfat Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
3. sıfat Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.

   “The genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera.”

4. sıfat Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
5. sıfat Tangent, touching at a single point.
6. isim The point at which two tangent curves touch.
7. isim The condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous quantics, is also the solution of the corresponding set of tangential quantics.
8. isim a form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in common