Does $x'(s)y'(s)$ have a geometric meaning?

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Consider a simple, closed curve $\left(x(s),y(s)\right)$, being $s$ the arc-length.

The quantity

\begin{align} \frac{d x(s)}{d s}\frac{d y(s)}{d s} \end{align}

is found in some problems concerning Chebyshev nets, so I wonder if we can give to it some meaning or ascribe a property. In terms of the unit tangent $\mathbf{T}$ it can be written as $\left(\mathbf{T}\cdot \mathbf{\hat{x}}\right)\left(\mathbf{T}\cdot \mathbf{\hat{y}}\right)=\mathbf{\hat{x}}\cdot \left(\mathbf{T}\mathbf{T} \right)\cdot \mathbf{\hat{y}}$, but it apparently doesn't hint to something useful.