osculant

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Synonyms: osculate, oscitant, esculent, occupant, postulant, obscurant, oscula, oscular

Antonyms: osculate, oscitant, esculent, occupant, postulant, obscurant, oscula, oscular

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Adjective

1. {{lb|en|zoology}} [[adhere|Adhering]] closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as [[caterpillar]]s.
2. {{lb|en|biology}} [[intermediate|Intermediate]] between two [[genus|genera]], [[group]]s, [[family|families]], etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; [[interosculant]].
3. {{lb|en|Bantu|_|linguistics}} [[intermediate|Intermediate]] between multiple potentially reconstructible [[protoform]]s, but having a mismatch in [[semantics]] or [[morphology]] that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
4. {{lb|en|geometry}} [[tangent|Tangent]], touching at a single point.

Noun

1. {{lb|en|geometry}} The point at which two tangent curves touch.
2. {{lb|en|algebra}} The condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous [[quantic]]s, is also the solution of the corresponding set of [[tangential]] [[quantic]]s.
3. {{lb|en|maths}} a form of [[tacinvariant]] of [[hypersurface]]s that have a [[point]] in common

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