osculation , auch: tacnode

The point of osculation is also called the double cusp.

The drinks we were both holding made it a rather awkward and cautious osculation.

She turned her back on the two of them, angry but wondering: Was there anything about strategic osculation in the officers' manual?

I kissed her warmly and a sudden pounding on the door sounded an echo to my osculation.

The two-and-a-half minute osculation is "perhaps his most intimate and erotic kiss".

Somehow Crockett managed to explain the mechanics of osculation.

Lisa had grabbed him by the shoulders and was now putting all she had into offensive osculation.

Cautiously, as if you might be bitten, you disengage yourself from his osculation.

You mention that the scientific term for kissing is "osculation," which sounds terribly unromantic to me.

Just as the surprise wore off and Grant warmed up to the osculation, she pushed him away so hard he almost tumbled over the bench.

The converse - osculating curves cross at the point of osculation - is not necessarily true, but holds in almost all cases.

Even the basic results on osculation of curves, a manifestly projective-invariant topic, lack any comprehensive theory.

Each circle could touch or overlap with adjacent circles (a phenomenon called 'osculation').

If you were to approach one, ever so cautious, lips pursed for the coming osculation, it would leap, trailing warty legs.

I even had to have the helmet on; then, ceremoniously, I would tilt it back for the nuptial osculation.

Leigh-Cheri had thought that frogs became princes through the transformative magic of osculation.

During their first kiss she follows her doll's crazy instructions on proper osculation and sinks her teeth into his lip.

"I don't think osculation frangais is on your list of prescribed meds."

The food chain of osculation for character actors is bovine, equine, feline, canine - but never distaff divine.

They described the movements as "a semi-continuous harmonic signal with a peak osculation of 3Hz (Hertz)".

The movie actually has the temerity to show us that osculation: an impulsive, awkward peck on the lips exchanged by two children on a ferris wheel.

Charles Hayward, Michael Prime: Wash Rinse Spin / Osculation (2000)

In classical algebraic geometry, a tacnode (also called a point of osculation or double cusp) is a kind of singular point of a curve.

The obsolete Quinarian system of biological classification attempted to group creatures into circles which could touch or overlap with adjacent circles, a phenomenon called 'osculation'.

The gradations of osculation include the soul kiss, also called the French kiss, in which the tongue is inserted into the partner's mouth (leading to the term tonsil hockey).