Found 4 items, similar to Contact.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: contact
menghubungi
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: contact
bersinggungan, berurusan, hubungan, menyinggung, pertautan, singgung
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: contact
contact
v 1: be in or establish communication with;
“Our advertisements
reach millions”;
“He never contacted his children after
he emigrated to Australia” [syn:
reach,
get through,
get hold of]
2: be in direct physical contact with; make contact;
“The two
buildings touch”;
“Their hands touched”;
“The wire must
not contact the metal cover”;
“The surfaces contact at
this point” [syn:
touch,
adjoin,
meet]
contact
n 1: close interaction;
“they kept in daily contact”;
“they
claimed that they had been in contact with
extraterrestrial beings”
2: the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate
proximity;
“litmus paper turns red on contact with an
acid”
3: the act of touching physically;
“her fingers came in contact
with the light switch”
4: the physical coming together of two or more things;
“contact
with the pier scraped paint from the hull” [syn:
impinging,
striking]
5: a person who is in a position to give you special
assistance;
“he used his business contacts to get an
introduction to the governor” [syn:
middleman]
6: a channel for communication between groups;
“he provided a
liaison with the guerrillas” [syn:
liaison,
link,
inter-group communication
]
7: (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical
conductors) touch or are in physical contact;
“they forget
to solder the contacts” [syn:
tangency]
8: a communicative interaction;
“the pilot made contact with
the base”;
“he got in touch with his colleagues” [syn:
touch]
9: a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the
cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
[syn:
contact lens]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Contact
Contact
\Con"tact\ (k[o^]n"t[a^]kt), n. [L. contactus, fr.
contingere, -tactum, to touch on all sides. See
Contingent.]
1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or
meeting.
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2. (Geom.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which
meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
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3. (Mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of
dissimilar rock. --Raymond.
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4. (Electricity) A metallic conducting component of an
electrical device connected to a circuit within and so
situated that it may form a conducting pathway to an
external power source or device when contacted by another
conductor; as, the contact on a standard light bulb has
the shape of a screw for easy insertion into the socket.
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5. A person who serves to commmunicate information to or from
one group to another, whether formally or informally; as,
a good Washington reporter has contacts in the White
House.
[PJC]
Contact level, a delicate level so pivoted as to tilt when
two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with
each other; -- used in precise determinations of lengths
and in the accurate graduation of instruments.
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