| 单词 | osculation |
| 释义 | osculation (once / 101020 pages) 1n 2n Osculation means kissing. If you tease your friends with a rhyme that describes them "sitting in a tree/k-i-s-s-i-n-g," you're joking about osculation. Most wedding ceremonies traditionally end with osculation, and osculation is also part of a typical greeting in many parts of Europe. It's a fancy way of saying "kiss," and if you think it sounds vaguely mathematical, you're right. Osculation is also a term in geometry that describes the place where two curves or surfaces come into contact, or where their common tangent exists. It's almost as if the two curved lines are kissing. WORD FAMILYosculation: osculations+/inosculate: inosculated, inosculates, inosculating, inosculation/inosculation: inosculations/osculate: inosculate, osculated, osculating, osculation, osculator USAGE EXAMPLESOne of the play's more memorable exchanges directly engages the all-important subject of theatrical osculation. Los Angeles Times(Apr 15, 2016) I suppose he was afraid she would have no lips left after such reiterated osculation. Unknown, The Nibelungenlied—Revised Edition(2012) On the same day I saw “Vanya,” I was treated to a more optimistic act of osculation in the afternoon. New York Times(Aug 11, 2011) 1 n the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper buss, kiss smack, smooch an enthusiastic kiss French kiss, deep kiss, soul kissan openmouthed kiss in which your tongue is inserted into the other's mouth smackera loud kiss touch, touching the act of putting two things together with no space between them n (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent Hyper contact the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity |
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