Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
OSCULATING
Verb
osculating
present participle of osculate
Adjective
osculating (comparative more osculating, superlative most osculating)
(mathematics, of a curve) Having three or more points coincident with another
Anagrams
• scaling out
Source: Wiktionary
OSCULATE
Os"cu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Osculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Osculating.] Etym: [L. osculatus, p. p. of osculari to kiss, fr. osculum a little mouth, a kiss, dim. of os mouth. See Oral, and cf. Oscillate.]
1. To kiss.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2.
Os"cu*late, v. i.
1. To kiss one another; to kiss.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: To touch closely. See Osculation, 2.
3. (Biol.)
Definition: To have characters in common with two genera or families, so as to form a connecting link between them; to interosculate. See Osculant.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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