Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

osculant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: os-cu-lant
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.

adj

Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.

adj

Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.

adj

Tangent, touching at a single point.

noun

The point at which two tangent curves touch.

noun

The condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous quantics, is also the solution of the corresponding set of tangential quantics.

noun

a form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in common

Example Sentences

"The genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera."
"osculant groups"

Etymology

From Latin osculans, osculantis, present participle of osculari (“to kiss”). See osculate.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: osculans

Inflected Forms

osculants (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

osculance

Synonyms

tacinvariant

Questions

What does osculant mean?: Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
Where does osculant come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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