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Contingency :: Contingency (n.) Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.

Conformable :: Conformable (a.) Parallel, or nearly so; -- said of strata in contact..

Indicatrix :: Indicatrix (n.) A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of the surface at the point of contact. The curve is similar to the intersection of the surface with a parallel to the tangent plane and indefinitely near it. It is an ellipse when the curvature is synclastic, and an hyperbola when the curvature is anticlastic..

Hit :: Hit (v. i.) To meet or come in contact; to strike; to clash; -- followed by against or on.

Connector :: Connector (n.) A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.

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..

Impregnate :: Impregnate (v. t.) To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.

Angustation :: Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.

Adjoin :: Adjoin (v. t.) To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

Connivent :: Connivent (a.) Brought close together; arched inward so that the points meet; converging; in close contact; as, the connivent petals of a flower, wings of an insect, or folds of membrane in the human system, etc..

Wed :: Wed (v. i.) To contact matrimony; to marry.

Virtue :: Virtue (n.) Energy or influence operating without contact of the material or sensible substance.

Malaria :: Malaria (n.) A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals..

Cardiograph :: Cardiograph (n.) An instrument which, when placed in contact with the chest, will register graphically the comparative duration and intensity of the heart's movements..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A large or long building divided into separate houses or shops, or a number of houses or shops built in contact with each other so as to form one building; a row of houses or shops..

Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..

Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal..

Osmose :: Osmose (n.) The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening porous structure. The more rapid flow from the thinner to the thicker fluid was then called endosmose, and the opposite, slower current, exosmose. Both are, however, results of the same force. Osmose may be regarded as a form of molecular attraction, allied to that of adhesion..

Click :: Click (n.) A kind of articulation used by the natives of Southern Africa, consisting in a sudden withdrawal of the end or some other portion of the tongue from a part of the mouth with which it is in contact, whereby a sharp, clicking sound is produced. The sounds are four in number, and are called cerebral, palatal, dental, and lateral clicks or clucks, the latter being the noise ordinarily used in urging a horse forward..

Impact :: Impact (n.) Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.

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