Look up: contact

1. Contact
   Arrangements made for parents who are not looking after their children to have agreed meetings with them. Formerly known as access.
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2. contact
   [n] - the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity 2. [n] - a person who is in a position to give you special assistance 3. [n] - the physical coming together of two or more things 4. [n] - a communicative interaction 5. [n] - a thin curved glass or pl...
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3. Contact
   Engagement with the enemy.
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4. Contact
   A colloquial term used to announce that the switch of an aero engine is on and the pilot is ready for the engine to be started. Largely a relic now from the days when propellers swung by hand.
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5. Contact
   The part of an electrical circuit which, when connected, completes the electric circuit and permits the flow of electric current.
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6. contact
   of a phytocide, affecting only that part of the target organism with which it comes into contact Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • an area on the surface of a semiconductor chip,to which external connection is made Category: Electrical engineeri...
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7. Contact
   The specific points of contact within a connector. Contacts can be male (pins) or female (sockets.).
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8. Contact
   Con'tact (kŏn'tăkt) noun [ Latin contactus , from contingere , -tactum , to touch on all sides. See Contingent .] 1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting. 2. (Geom.) ...
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9. contact
   A mutual touching of two bodies or persons. ... Origin: L. Contactus = a touching together ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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10. contact
    tangency noun (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; `they forget to solder the contacts`
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11. contact
    physical contact noun the act of touching physically; `her fingers came in contact with the light switch`
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12. contact
    impinging noun the physical coming together of two or more things; `contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull`
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13. contact
    middleman noun a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; `he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor`
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14. contact
    noun the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity; `litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid`
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15. contact
    noun a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
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16. contact
    (kon´takt) a mutual touching of two bodies or persons. an individual known to have been sufficiently near an infected person to have been exposed to the transfer of infectious material. direct contact transmission of infection from an infected host or reservoir to a suscepti...
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17. Contact
    • (n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. • (n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting. • (n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
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18. contact
    (from the article `eclipse`) ...of Earth. This is a direct proof of the spherical shape of Earth, a discovery made by the ancient Greeks. Because of Earth`s atmosphere, the edge ...
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19. contact
    (from the article `semiconductor device`) Such a diode is one that has a metal-semiconductor contact (e.g., an aluminum layer in intimate contact with an n-type silicon substrate). It is ...
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20. Contact
    (from the article `Foster, Jodie`) ...in which she also costarred. In 1994 she coproduced Nell, for which she also received an Oscar nomination for best actress. In 1997 Foster starred ...
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21. contact
    (L. contactus a touching together) a mutual touching of two bodies or persons.
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22. Contact
    The place or surface where two different kinds of rocks meet. Applies to sedimentary rocks, as the contact between a limestone and a sandstone, for example, and to metamorphic rocks; and it is especially applicable between igneous intrusions and their walls.
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23. Contact
    a single field record of an individual by sight or sound (Ralph 1980:577) (syn. detection, cue, registration, observation).
    Found on http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/liter
    
    
24. contact
    
    • close interaction
    • the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity
    • the act of touching physically
    • the physical coming together of two or more things
    • a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
    • a channel for communication between groups
    • a communicative interaction
    
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25. Contact
    Any conversation with a decision maker or any communication that advances a case toward completion.
    Found on http://www.nmoa.org/Library/index.htm