Definition of contact

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Contact (n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Meet :: Meet (v. t.) To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking..
Part :: Part (n.) To separate or disunite; to cause to go apart; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
Touch :: Touch (v. i.) To be in contact; to be in a state of junction, so that no space is between; as, two spheres touch only at points..
Immediate :: Immediate (a.) Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact..
Conformable :: Conformable (a.) Parallel, or nearly so; -- said of strata in contact..
Contingency :: Contingency (n.) Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. i.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose..
Pleximeter :: Pleximeter (n.) A small, hard, elastic plate, as of ivory, bone, or rubber, placed in contact with body to receive the blow, in examination by mediate percussion..
Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.
Tangency :: Tangency (n.) The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching.
Itch :: Itch (n.) An eruption of small, isolated, acuminated vesicles, produced by the entrance of a parasitic mite (the Sarcoptes scabei), and attended with itching. It is transmissible by contact..
Contaminate :: Contaminate (v. t.) To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile..
Finger :: Finger (n.) Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion..
Bump :: Bump (v. i.) To come in violent contact with something; to thump.
Conformability :: Conformability (n.) The parallelism of two sets of strata which are in contact.
Cleavers :: Cleavers (n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc..
Feel :: Feel (v. t.) To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; to have sensation excited by contact of (a thing) with the body or limbs..
Calender :: Calender (n.) A machine, used for the purpose of giving cloth, paper, etc., a smooth, even, and glossy or glazed surface, by cold or hot pressure, or for watering them and giving them a wavy appearance. It consists of two or more cylinders revolving nearly in contact, with the necessary apparatus for moving and regulating..
Toot :: Toot (v. i.) To blow or sound a horn; to make similar noise by contact of the tongue with the root of the upper teeth at the beginning and end of the sound; also, to give forth such a sound, as a horn when blown..
Fecundation :: Fecundation (n.) The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization..
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