Contact

The Simple English Wiktionary has a definition for: contact.

Contact means to touch physically or to communicate with.

Contact could also mean:

General uses

• Contact lens, a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens
• Contact process, a method for producing sulfuric acid on an industrial scale
• Contact network, a type of social network
• Contact (law), in Family Law, deals with the right of parents or other significant persons to meet with and relate to a child
• Active component of electric switch or electrical connector
• vCard or hCard, in address books, a contact is the name, address, phone number, and other pertinent information
• Contact paper, in photography, used to print negatives without enlargement
• Contact (mathematics), a mathematical concept, the idea of curves (for example) touching
• Optical contacting, a process in which two highly polished surfaces are permanently or temporarily joined without use of any adhesive
• Contact Energy, an energy company in New Zealand
• The initial fighting with an enemy unit, in a military context
• Contact Conference, an annual interdisciplinary scientific conference
• Contact (social), a person renowned for performing special and often illegal favors for individuals in return for goods or services.
• First contact (anthropology) between different cultures.
• Radar contact, the display of a single radar return from an object as a result of one radar sweep
• CONTACT USA, a crisis hotline.
• Amateur radio contact, an exchange of information between two amateur radio operators
• Contact massage, massage that is done by hands or special electronic aids

In music

• Contact (musical), a dance musical

Other media

• Contact (novel), a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan
• Contact (movie), a movie based on the book
• Contact (video game), a Nintendo DS game
• Contact (Dance), a dance production by Paul Mercurio
• Contact (The Culture), in novels by Iain M. Banks, the Exploration (and sometimes military) corp of the Culture
• Contact (game), a word-guessing game.
• Contact is English for Contacto, a publication of the British Interlingua Society.

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