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Meaning of osculation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˌɒs.kjʊˈleɪ.ʃən

Definitions

  1. The action of kissing.
  2. A kiss.
  3. A close contact.
  4. A contact between curves or surfaces, at which point they have a common tangent.
  5. The determination of whether a number is divisible by another by means of certain operations on its digits.

Equivalents

Français osculation
Polski styczność

Examples

“The Major she held to be a sort of Bayard among Majors: and as for her son Arthur she worshipped that youth with an ardour which the young scapegrace accepted almost as coolly as the statue of the Saint in Saint Peter’s receives the rapturous osculations which the faithful deliver on his toe.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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