osculatrix Meaning, Definition & Usage

Os`cu*la"trix noun
Etymology
NL.
Wordforms
plural Osculatrixes
Definitions
  1. (Geom.) A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.

Webster 1913