Definition of contact

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Contact (n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction..

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Sensitive :: Sensitive (a.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays..
Touch :: Touch (v.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile..
Fit :: Fit (n.) The coincidence of parts that come in contact.
Adjoin :: Adjoin (v. t.) To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
Polar :: Polar (n.) The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree th
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal..
Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact..
Spirulate :: Spirula (n.) A genus of cephalopods having a multilocular, internal, siphunculated shell in the form of a flat spiral, the coils of which are not in contact..
Join :: "Join (v. t.) To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append..
Incontiguous :: Incontiguous (a.) Not contiguous; not adjoining or in contact; separate.
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..
Induce :: Induce (v. t.) To produce, or cause, by proximity without contact or transmission, as a particular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state..
Contact :: Contact (n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction..
Noncontagious :: Noncontagious (a.) Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact.
Feel :: Feel (v. i.) To have perception by the touch, or by contact of anything with the nerves of sensation, especially those upon the surface of the body..
Roll :: Roll (n.) To apply (one line or surface) to another without slipping; to bring all the parts of (one line or surface) into successive contact with another, in suck manner that at every instant the parts that have been in contact are equal..
Croquet :: Croquet (v. t.) In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet..
Inosculate :: Inosculate (v. i.) To unite by apposition or contact, as two tubular vessels at their extremities; to anastomose..
Back :: Back (adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement.
On :: On (prep.) At, or in contact with, the surface or upper part of a thing, and supported by it; placed or lying in contact with the surface; as, the book lies on the table, which stands on the floor of a house on an island..
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