Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun osculating_circle

1 sense of osculating circle

Sense 1
circle of curvature, osculating circle -- (the circle that touches a curve (on the concave side) and whose radius is the radius of curvature)
       => 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; "he calculated the circumference of the circle")