Osculate
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Osculate is a semi-archaic English word with several definitions.

• Often it means "to kiss", sometimes used in a "tongue-in-cheek" fashion.

• Its primary definition is "to bring, or come into, close contact of union".

• In mathematics, it means "to touch so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact". See osculating circle, osculating curve, and osculating orbit.

• An additional definition is "to bring into focus or tune, to attune".

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