contact
The act of touching physically; being in close association.
Other meanings
The establishment of communication (with).
“I haven't been in contact with her for years.”
The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
Related words
- contact line
- letterbox contact
- body contact
- anticontact
- contactin
- contactization
- contactual
- intercontact
- microcontact
- multicontact
- nanocontact
- overcontact
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "contactus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “contact” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.