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In mathematics, osculate, meaning to touch (from the Latin osculum meaning kiss), may refer to:
osculant, an invariant of hypersurfaces
osculating circle
osculating curve
osculating plane
osculating orbit
osculating sphere
The obsolete Quinarian system of biological classification attempted to group creatures into circles which could touch or overlap with adjacent circles, a phenomenon called 'osculation'.
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osculant, an invariant of hypersurfaces osculating circle osculating curve osculating plane osculating orbit osculating sphere The obsolete Quinarian system...
In astronomy, and in particular in astrodynamics, the osculating orbit of an object in space at a given moment in time is the gravitational Kepler orbit...
An osculating circle is a circle that best approximates the curvature of a curve at a specific point. It is tangent to the curve at that point and has...
In mathematics, particularly in differential geometry, an osculating plane is a plane in a Euclidean space or affine space which meets a submanifold at...
In differential geometry, an osculating curve is a plane curve from a given family that has the highest possible order of contact with another curve. That...
curvature at a point of a differentiable curve is the curvature of its osculating circle — that is, the circle that best approximates the curve near this...
approximation to the ellipsoid in the vicinity of a given point is the Earth's osculating sphere. Its radius equals Earth's Gaussian radius of curvature, and its...
real trajectories can be modeled as a sequence of Keplerian orbits that osculate ("kiss" or touch) the real trajectory. They can also be described by the...
variants of the Black Moon include replacing the mean orbit with a "true" osculating orbit or with an interpolated orbit; charting the empty focus of the Moon's...
Neptune barycentre and Solar System barycentre. These are the instantaneous osculating values at the precise J2000 epoch. Barycentre quantities are given because...
cyclides both sheets form curves. * For the sphere the center of every osculating circle is at the center of the sphere and the focal surface forms a single...
depicting evolution of a Cornu spiral with the tangential circle with the same radius of curvature as at its tip, also known as an osculating circle....
points respectively of a body's direct orbit around the Sun. Comparing osculating elements at a specific epoch to effectively those at a different epoch...
fact leads to an easy proof of the Tait–Kneser theorem on nesting of osculating circles. The normals of the given curve at points of nonzero curvature...
Propulsion Laboratory: for the above reasons, they may strongly differ from osculating orbital elements provided by other sources. Otherwise, recently-discovered...
the torsion of a curve measures how sharply it is twisting out of the osculating plane. Taken together, the curvature and the torsion of a space curve...
controversial, as it seems to require two sheets of the Gibbs free energy to osculate exactly, which is so unlikely as to never occur in practice. Cornelis Gorter...
leave the Solar System. For example, Comet McNaught had a heliocentric osculating eccentricity of 1.000019 near its perihelion passage epoch in January...
the parameters needed to specify a Newtonian two-body orbit uniquely. Osculating orbit is the temporary Keplerian orbit about a central body that an object...
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