English Dictionary

osculate

/ˈɑskjʊˌleɪt/

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To kiss. / (mathematics) To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact. / (intransitive) To make contact.

They osculate each other goodbye before parting ways.

意味（1）

(transitive, intransitive) To kiss.

And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.

意味（2）

(mathematics) To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To make contact.

意味（4）

(Vedic arithmetic) To perform osculation.

意味（5）

To form a connecting link between two genera.