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OSCULATING CIRCLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The circle that touches a curve (on the concave side) and whose radius is the radius of curvature
Synonyms:
circle of curvature; osculating circle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("osculating circle" is a kind of...):
circle (ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point)
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