contact

Meanings

Noun

• The act of touching physically; being in close association.
• The establishment of communication (with).
• The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
• A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
• Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
• A contact lens.
• A device designed for repetitive connections.
• Contact juggling.
• The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

Verb

• To touch; to come into physical contact with.
• To establish communication with something or someone

Origin

• From Latin contactus, from contingō, from tangō. Used in English since the 17th century.