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  2. Osculate - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, osculate, meaning to touch (from the Latin osculum meaning kiss), may refer to: osculant, an invariant of hypersurfaces; osculating circle; osculating curve ...

  3. Occultation - Wikipedia

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    In this July 1997 still frame captured from video, the bright star Aldebaran has just reappeared on the dark limb of the waning crescent moon in this predawn occultation.. An occultation is an event that occurs when one object is hidden from the observer by another object that passes between them.

  4. Osculating orbit - Wikipedia

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    Osculating orbit (inner, black) and perturbed orbit (red) In astronomy, and in particular in astrodynamics, the osculating orbit of an object in space at a given moment in time is the gravitational Kepler orbit (i.e. an elliptic or other conic one) that it would have around its central body if perturbations were absent. [1]

  5. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English language.. Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j.

  6. Verb - Wikipedia

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    Media related to Verbs at Wikimedia Commons; The dictionary definition of verb at Wiktionary; www.verbix.com Verbs and verb conjugation in many languages. conjugation.com English Verb Conjugation. Italian Verbs Coniugator and Analyzer Conjugation and Analysis of Regular and Irregular Verbs, and also of Neologisms, like googlare for to google.

  7. Osculating plane - Wikipedia

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    A space curve, Frenet–Serret frame, and the osculating plane (spanned by T and N). In mathematics, particularly in differential geometry, an osculating plane is a plane in a Euclidean space or affine space which meets a submanifold at a point in such a way as to have a second order of contact at the point.

  8. Gaslighting - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 January 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Type of psychological manipulation This article is about human behavior. For illumination derived from burning gas, see Gas lighting. Google Trends topic searches for "Gaslighting" began a substantial increase in 2016. Gaslighting is a ...

  9. File:Oculate Being, Paracas culture. 350 BCE–60 CE Met Museum ...

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    This bowl depicts the Oculate Being, a creature named for its oversized circular eyes, popular in the Ica region of the south coast of Peru during the last centuries B.C. The white oval head of the Oculate Being, painted in the middle of the vessel, is the central focus of the scene, its green body extending to one edge.