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osculatrix

osculatrix


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Osculatrix  \Os`cu*la"trix\,  n.;  pl  {Osculatrixes}.  [NL.] 
  (Geom.) 
  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