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adj
Kissing; hence, touching or meeting; clinging.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Adhering closely; applied to certain creeping animals, such as caterpillars.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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adj
Intermediate between two genera, groups, families, etc., and having some of the characteristics of each; interosculant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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adj
Intermediate between multiple potentially reconstructible protoforms, but having a mismatch in semantics or morphology that cannot be explained through regular patterns of change.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: Bantu linguistics
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adj
Tangent, touching at a single point.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
The point at which two tangent curves touch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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noun
The condition that the solution to a set of simultaneous quantics, is also the solution of the corresponding set of tangential quantics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: algebra, mathematics, sciences
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noun
a form of tacinvariant of hypersurfaces that have a point in common
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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History
From Latin osculans, osculantis, present participle of osculari (“to kiss”). See osculate.
