osculatrices

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A form of osculatrix — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of osculatrix
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