Definitionen
1.AdjectiveKissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
2.AdjectiveAdhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
3.AdjectiveIntermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant."The genera by which two families approximate are called osculant genera."
4.AdjectiveIntermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
5.AdjectiveTangent, touching at a single point.
6.NounThe point at which two tangent curves touch.
7.NounThe condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous quantics, is also the solution of the corresponding set of tangential quantics.
8.Nouna form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in common