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Osculatrix
Webster's Dictionary
(n.) A curve whose contact with a given curve, at a given point, is of a higher order (or involves the equality of a greater number of successive differential coefficients of the ordinates of the curves taken at that point) than that of any other curve of the same kind.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Osculatrix'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/o/osculatrix.html. 1828.