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osculating plane

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
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osculating plane

Summary

osculating plane ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • osculating plane's subclass of is recorded as plane[2].
  • osculating plane's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03m3n_k[3].
  • osculating plane's studied by is recorded as differential geometry of curves[4].
  • osculating plane's MathWorld ID is recorded as OsculatingPlane[5].
  • osculating plane's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 133724[6].
  • osculating plane's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[7].
  • osculating plane's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 197896411[8].
  • osculating plane's IEV number is recorded as 102-04-24[9].

Why It Matters

osculating plane ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). osculating plane. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/osculating-plane
MLA “osculating plane.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/osculating-plane.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_osculating-plane_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{osculating plane}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/osculating-plane}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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