Contact
['kɒntækt] or ['kɑntækt]
Definition
(noun.) close interaction; 'they kept in daily contact'; 'they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings'.
(noun.) the act of touching physically; 'her fingers came in contact with the light switch'.
(noun.) (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; 'they forget to solder the contacts'.
(noun.) a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication.
(noun.) a communicative interaction; 'the pilot made contact with the base'; 'he got in touch with his colleagues'.
(noun.) the physical coming together of two or more things; 'contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull'.
(noun.) a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; 'he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor'.
(noun.) the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity; 'litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid'.
Editor: Oswald--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
(n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
(n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Checked by Horatio
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Touch, juxtaposition, junction, contiguity, close union.
Edited by Denny
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Touch, contiguity, continuity, apposition, adjunction
ANT:Proximity, adjacence, interruption, disconnection, separation, distance,isolation, noncontact
Typist: Pansy
Definition
n. touching or close union: meeting: (math.) coincidence as of two curves in two or more successive points.—adj. Contact′ual pertaining to contact.—Be in contact (with) to be touching anything; Make contact to complete an electrical current.
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Examples
- However, I determined to cut all public amusements as soon as I knew Worcester to be in contact with the enemies of old England. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The needle, in passing rapidly in contact with the recorded waves, was vibrated up and down, causing corresponding vibrations of the diaphragm. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But immediately afterwards the armature springs backward and makes contact at _P_ and the entire operation is repeated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- It had been my profession, for years past, to be in this close contact with young girls of all ages, and of all orders of beauty. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The acid used to liberate the chlorine from the bleaching powder, and the chlorine also, rot materials with which they remain in contact for any length of time. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A pendulum carrying a pencil was in constant contact with a strip of paper drawn beneath the pencil. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The transmitting instrument had five small wheels or rollers, instead of two, for making contacts through the perforations and causing short electric impulses to pass over the lines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was several months before he could convey one hundred amperes by means of such contacts, but he worked out at last a satisfactory device which was equal to the task. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But the principle applies even more significantly to the field where we are apt to ignore it--the sphere of social contacts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The actual relaying was accomplished through the medium of two contacts making connection with the local or relay circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In both cases the current was a continuously closed one, and was not alternately made and broken as by the separating contacts of Reis. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Not least important of the joint labors of the Society were its publications, which established contacts and stimul ated research throughout the scientific world. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We had many contacts with the people of Asturias where they are much developed politically. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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