verb
- kissed
- touched or came into contact with at a single point
Usage: formal; literary
Usage: mathematics; geometry
Examples
- The lovers osculated beneath the moonlight.
- In his formal speech, he mentioned how the couple had osculated at the altar.
- The two circles osculated at exactly one point.
- The mathematician demonstrated how the curve osculated the line.
- The geometric figures osculated along their shared tangent.
- She osculated his cheek in greeting.