Osculating plane

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. Article “Osculating plane” in English Wikipedia has 12.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.64 points.

This article has the best quality in Tamil Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Osculating plane”, its content was written by 18 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 52 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 15 times in English Wikipedia and cited 54 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #113364 in January 2023
• Global: #227184 in September 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #507708 in March 2014
• Global: #793267 in March 2014

There are 11 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Tamil (ta) ஒட்டு சமதளம்		23.6746
2	Basque (eu) Plano oskulatzaile		20.0802
3	French (fr) Plan osculateur		16.4178
4	Portuguese (pt) Plano osculador		16.2868
5	English (en) Osculating plane		12.1166
6	Ukrainian (uk) Стична площина		11.1359
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Oskulerande plan		5.398
8	Chinese (zh) 密切平面		5.2005
9	Slovenian (sl) Pritisnjena ravnina		5.1191
10	Romanian (ro) Plan osculator		3.4707

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Osculating plane" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Osculating plane		164 496
2	Chinese (zh) 密切平面		15 033
3	French (fr) Plan osculateur		12 203
4	Japanese (ja) 接触平面		9 549
5	Romanian (ro) Plan osculator		4 369
6	Portuguese (pt) Plano osculador		4 231
7	Slovenian (sl) Pritisnjena ravnina		3 088
8	Ukrainian (uk) Стична площина		1 909
9	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Oskulerande plan		1 542
10	Basque (eu) Plano oskulatzaile		395

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Osculating plane" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Osculating plane		701
2	French (fr) Plan osculateur		60
3	Chinese (zh) 密切平面		49
4	Portuguese (pt) Plano osculador		43
5	Romanian (ro) Plan osculator		30
6	Japanese (ja) 接触平面		24
7	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Oskulerande plan		15
8	Slovenian (sl) Pritisnjena ravnina		9
9	Ukrainian (uk) Стична площина		9
10	Tamil (ta) ஒட்டு சமதளம்		5

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Osculating plane" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Osculating plane		18
2	Chinese (zh) 密切平面		8
3	Japanese (ja) 接触平面		7
4	Ukrainian (uk) Стична площина		5
5	Portuguese (pt) Plano osculador		3
6	Romanian (ro) Plan osculator		3
7	Tamil (ta) ஒட்டு சமதளம்		3
8	French (fr) Plan osculateur		2
9	Basque (eu) Plano oskulatzaile		1
10	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Oskulerande plan		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Osculating plane" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Ukrainian (uk) Стична площина		1
2	English (en) Osculating plane		0
3	Basque (eu) Plano oskulatzaile		0
4	French (fr) Plan osculateur		0
5	Japanese (ja) 接触平面		0
6	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Oskulerande plan		0
7	Portuguese (pt) Plano osculador		0
8	Romanian (ro) Plan osculator		0
9	Slovenian (sl) Pritisnjena ravnina		0
10	Tamil (ta) ஒட்டு சமதளம்		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Osculating plane" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Osculating plane		15
2	French (fr) Plan osculateur		13
3	Romanian (ro) Plan osculator		8
4	Portuguese (pt) Plano osculador		6
5	Ukrainian (uk) Стична площина		6
6	Basque (eu) Plano oskulatzaile		2
7	Japanese (ja) 接触平面		2
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Oskulerande plan		1
9	Chinese (zh) 密切平面		1
10	Slovenian (sl) Pritisnjena ravnina		0

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#	Language	Value
en	English Osculating plane
eu	Basque Plano oskulatzaile
fr	French Plan osculateur
ja	Japanese 接触平面
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Oskulerande plan
pt	Portuguese Plano osculador
ro	Romanian Plan osculator
sl	Slovenian Pritisnjena ravnina
ta	Tamil ஒட்டு சமதளம்
uk	Ukrainian Стична площина
zh	Chinese 密切平面

Best Rank

English: #507708 03.2014

Global: #793267 03.2014

Best Rank

English: #113364 01.2023

Global: #227184 09.2011

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