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osculate (OS-kyuh-layt) verb tr.
   1. To kiss.
   2. Mathematics: (For a curve) to touch another curve in
   such a way that they have same tangent and curvature
   at the common point.
verb intr.
   To touch or to bring together.
[From Latin osculatus, the past participle of osculari, from osculum (kiss; literally, little mouth), diminutive form of os (mouth).]
i want to osculate! now! someone osculate me!

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3 Thoughts on “this is post #765”

  1. (the shorter)Heather on November 16, 2001 at 10:07 said:

    2. Mathematics: (For a curve) to touch another curve in
    such a way that they have same tangent and curvature
    at the common point.
    Ya know, that sounds rather kinky in and of itself. Wanna put your tangent and curvature at a common point with my tangent and curvature??

  2. Edge on November 16, 2001 at 12:58 said:

    Math never seemed sexy to me before… Heather, you should have been my math teacher in HS. Then again, I would have gotten you fired. Or the subject of a Made for TV Movie of the Week. ;)

  3. (the shorter)Heather on November 16, 2001 at 13:25 said:

    Oh, math is plenty sexy!
    Baby, I love it when you cosine me! Hey, I can see your secant through your shorts. Oooh, rub my iambic pentameter…. oh, wait… wrong class.

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