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Contact Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
CONTACT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
- NOUNcontact (noun) · contacts (plural noun)
- the state or condition of physical touching:"the tennis ball is in contact with the court surface for as little as 5 milliseconds"
- activated by or operating through physical touch:"contact dermatitis"
- a connection for the passage of an electric current from one thing to another, or a part or device by which such a connection is made:"a one-way electrical contact between a metal and a semiconductor"
- (contacts)contact lenses:"she didn't have her contacts in"
- the state or condition of communicating or meeting:"Lewis and Clark came into contact with numerous river tribes" ·"he had lost contact with his friends"synonyms:
- a meeting, communication, or relationship with someone:"they have forged contacts with key people in business"
- a person who may be communicated with for information or assistance, especially with regard to one's job:"Francie had good contacts"synonyms:
- a person who has associated with a patient with a contagious disease (and so may carry the infection):"all efforts are made to persuade possible contacts of patients with either disease to attend for investigation"
VERBcontact (verb) · contacts (third person present) · contacted (past tense) · contacted (past participle) · contacting (present participle)ORIGINearly 17th century: from Latin contactus, from contact- ‘touched, grasped, bordered on’, from the verb contingere, from con- ‘together with’ + tangere ‘to touch’.More about contactData from Oxford Languages