osculation

  1. Noun.  The action of kissing.
  2. Noun.  A kiss.
  3. Noun.  A close contact.
  4. Noun.  (mathematics) A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent.
  5. Noun.  (context, Vedic) Determining whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.

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