Term: osculation: (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent
Candidate hypernym: contact: the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity → 1
Candidate hypernym: pitch: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue → 0
Candidate hypernym: patroness: a woman who is a patron or the wife of a patron → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus mesohippus: a genus of Equidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: skin test: any test to determine immunity or sensitivity to a disease by introducing small amounts on or into the skin → 0
Candidate hypernym: lens: a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images → 0
Candidate hypernym: involution: the action of enfolding something → 0
Candidate hypernym: naturalism: (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations → 0
Candidate hypernym: reflexivity: (logic and mathematics) a relation such that it holds between an element and itself → 0
Candidate hypernym: first class: the highest rank in a classification → 0
Candidate hypernym: vermillion rockfish: a commercially important fish of the Pacific coast of North America → 0