Contact

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Contact means to touch physically or to communicate with.

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
• Active component of 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
• The initial fighting with an enemy unit, in a military context
• Contact Conference, an annual interdisciplinary scientific conference
• A social contact, a person renowned for performing special and often illegal favors for individuals in return for goods or services.
• First contact between different cultures.
• Radar contact, the display of a single radar return from an object as a result of one radar sweep. (Compare with track).
• CONTACT USA, a Crisis Hotline.

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• Contact (novel), a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan
• Contact (film), based on the novel, starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey
• Contact (video game), a Nintendo DS game
• Contact (Code Lyoko episode), an episode of Code Lyoko
• Contact (Dance), a dance production by Paul Mercurio
• Contact (musical), a dance musical
• Contact (The Culture), in novels by Iain M. Banks, the Exploration (and sometimes military) corp of the Culture
• Contact (album), an album by Fantastic Plastic Machine
• Contact!, an album by Eiffel 65
• Contact (Silver Apples album), an album by Silver Apples
• "Contact" (Phish song), an early Phish song
• Contact, an album by The Benjamin Gate
• The Contact, a Korean film
• 3-2-1 Contact, an American science educational TV show
• 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, the forthcoming album by Thirteen Senses. It features a song of the same name.
• Contact (song), by the French rock band Kyo.
• Contact (game), a word-guessing game.
• Contact, l'encyclopédie de la création, a television series.
• Contact is English for Contacto, a publication of the British Interlingua Society.