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Contact means to touch physically or to communicate with.

Contact may also refer to one of the things below.

In social interaction

• Social contact, a person known to an individual, possibly on a different basis than friendship
• vCard or hCard, in address books, a contact is the name, address, phone number, and other pertinent information
• First contact (anthropology), between different cultures
• Amateur radio contact, an exchange of information between two amateur radio operators
• To actually touch in some way, be it physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual

In science and technology

• Contact mechanics (see also Contact (mechanics)), a mathematical approach for calculating the contact areas, stresses, deformations and force-desplacement relations when two objects are pressed against each other

• Contact process, a method for producing sulfuric acid on an industrial scale
• Active component of an electric switch or electrical connector
• Contact (mathematics), 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
• Radar contact, the display of a single radar return from an object as a result of one radar sweep. (Compare with track)
• Language contact, when different languages interact
• Contact paper, in photography, used to print negatives without enlargement
• The Contact Conference, an annual interdisciplinary scientific conference

In professional terminology

• Contact (law), in Family Law, deals with the right of parents or other significant persons to meet with and relate to a child
• In military parlance, a contact is any encounter with the enemy, generally (but not necessarily) involving fighting between sides.

In healthcare

• Contact lens, a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens
• Contact massage, massage that is done by hands or special electronic aids

Companies and organisations

• CONTACT USA, a Crisis Hotline
• Contact Air
• Contact Energy, an energy company in New Zealand

Media

Albums

• Contact (Fantastic Plastic Machine album), an album by Fantastic Plastic Machine
• Contact!, an album by Eiffel 65
• Contact (Silver Apples album), an album by Silver Apples
• Contact, an album by The Benjamin Gate
• Contact (Thirteen Senses album), an album by Thirteen Senses
• Contact (Dreamboy album), a rare 1984 R&B classic by Dreamboy
• Contact (Indo G album), an album by Indo G
• Contact (Minori Chihara album), an album by Minori Chihara
• Contact (7for4 album), an album by 7for4
• Contact (Freda Payne album), an album by Freda Payne
• Contact, a single by Brooklyn Bounce
• Contact, a 1978 disco single by Edwin Starr

Songs

• "Contact", a song by Thirteen Senses from the album with the same name
• "Contact", a song by Brooklyn Bounce from the single with the same name
• "Contact", a song from the broadway version of the rock opera Rent
• "Contact", a song by The Police from their 1979 album Reggatta de Blanc
• "Contact", a song by the French rock band Kyo
• "Contact", a song by Anthrax from We've Come For You All
• "Contact", a song by Phish
• "Contact", a song by Brigitte Bardot

Other media

• Contact (musical), a dance musical
• Contact (novel), a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan
• Contact (film), a movie based on the book
• Contact (short film), award-winning Australian short film by Kieran Galvin
• Contact (animated short film), award-winning Soviet animated short film directed by Vladimir Tarasov
• Contact (Macedonian film), a 2005 Macedonian movie starring Nikola Kojo
• 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 (word game), a word-guessing game
• Contact, the European name for the game Rivers, Roads & Rails
• Contact, the English name for Contacto, a publication of the British Interlingua Society

Other

• Contact sport
• Sparśa — the Buddhist concept of "contact" or sense impression
• Contact juggling

See also

• 3-2-1 Contact
• Kontakt

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