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Encyclopedia > Contact
Look up Contact in
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Contact means to touch physically or to communicate with. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary (hence: Wiktionary) (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...


Contact may also refer to:

  • Contact lens, a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens
  • Contact (law), in Family Law, deals with the right of parents or other significant persons to meet with and relate to a child
  • the active component of an 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
  • in military contexts, "contact" refers to the initial sighting or detection of an enemy unit

A contact lens (also known simply as a contact) is a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens usually placed on the cornea of the eye. ... In Family Law, contact (or in the United States, visitation) is one of the general terms which denotes the level of contact a parent or other significant person in a childs life can have with that child. ... This article is about electrical switches. ... An electrical connector is a device for joining electrical circuits together. ... vCard is a file format standard for personal data interchange, specifically electronic business cards. ... hCard is a simple, open, distributed contact information format for people, companies, and organizations, which is suitable for embedding in XHTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hCard is a 1:1 representation of the vCard standard (RFC2426) in XHTML, one of several open microformat standards. ... Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light. ... In mathematics, contact of order k of functions is an equivalence relation, corresponding to having the same value at a point P and also the same derivatives there, up to order k. ...

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Contact - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (338 words)
Contact (law), in Family Law, deals with the right of parents or other significant persons to meet with and relate to a child
A social contact, a person renowned for performing special and often illegal favors for individuals in return for goods or services.
Contact (The Culture), in novels by Iain M. Banks, the Exploration (and sometimes military) corp of the Culture
Contact a Family - for families with disabled children: information on rare syndromes and disorders (515 words)
Contact a Family is the only UK-wide charity providing advice, information and support to the parents of all disabled children - no matter what their disability or health condition.
Contact a Family is a UK-wide charity providing support, advice and information for families with disabled children.
Contact a Family may also be able to help with information and contacts for conditions not listed - please call the Contact a Family Helpline on 0808 808 3555.
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