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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun In n-dimensional space, the maximum number of hyperspheres of a given radius that can simultaneously touch a given hypersphere of the same radius, allowing only points of tangency with no overlapping regions. The kissing number for circles (two-dimensional hyperspheres) is 6.
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deinonychus commented on the word kissing number
"In geometry, a kissing number is defined as the number of non-overlapping unit spheres that touch another given unit sphere." (Wikipedia)
May 15, 2012