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Number of Results: 6 Search : osculating
osculating
  آبوسنده   
âbusandé

Fr.: osculateur   

Relating to → osculate.

Participial adjective of → osculate.

osculating circle
  پرهونِ آبوسنده   
parhun-e âbusandé

Fr.: cercle osculateur   

The circle that touches a curve (on the concave side) and whose radius is the radius of curvature.

osculating; → circle.

osculating elements
  بن‌پارهایِ آبوسشی   
bonpârhâ-ye âbuseš

Fr.: éléments orbitaux osculateurs   

The orbital elements of an osculating orbit.

osculating; → element.

osculating orbit
  مدارِ آبوسنده   
madâr-e âbusandé

Fr.: orbite osculatrice   

The Keplerian orbit that a satellite would follow after a specific time t if all forces other than central inverse-square forces ceased to act from time t on. An osculating orbit is tangent to the real, perturbed, orbit and has the same velocity at the point of tangency.

osculating; → orbit.

osculating plane
  هامُنِ آبوسنده   
hâmon-e âbusandé

Fr.: plan osculateur   

For a curve C at a point p, the limiting plane obtained from taking planes through the tangent to C at p and containing some variable point p' and then letting p' approach p along C.

osculating; → plane.

osculating sphere
  سپهرِ آبوسنده، کره‌یِ آبوسنده   
sepehr-e âbusandé, kore-ye ~

Fr.: sphère osculatrice   

For a curve C at a point p, the limiting sphere obtained by taking the sphere that passes through p and three other points on C and then letting these three points approach p independently along C.

osculating; → sphere.