osculating circle

American

noun

Mathematics.

circle of curvature.

Etymology

Origin of osculating circle

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

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For the osculating circle at any point includes the whole of the curve which lies beyond; and the successive convolutions envelop one another without intersection.

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