Osculate (verb)
os-koo-layt
(of a curve or surface) touch (another curve or surface) so as to have a common tangent at the point of contact.
Mid 17th century: from Latin osculat- ‘kissed’, from the verb osculari, from osculum ‘little mouth or kiss’.
Example sentences
“The crescents osculate, creating the movement you see.”
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