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Contact - Definition and Overview
Related Words: Accord, Acquaintance, Answer, Arbitrator, Association, Breath, Broker, Brush, Caress, Commerce, Communication, Communion, Concord, Congress, Conjunction, Connection

A contact is part of the active component of an electric switch.

Contacts generally consist of metal buttons or wires that are plated with a good electrical conductor that is also corrosion-resistant, such as gold or silver.

See also contact (mathematics), for the idea of curves (for example) touching.

Contact is also the title of a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan, and film adaptation.

In the Culture novels of Iain M. Banks Contact is the name of the Exploration (and sometimes military) corp of the Culture. See Contact (The Culture)

In address books, sales organizations, and electronic organizer devices, a contact is the name, address, phone number, and other pertinent information related to a client, vendor, friend, relative, or other associate.

The term contact is often used to refer to a contact lens.

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Example Usage of Contact
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chenylity: has suddenly become the Contact person for a high school class reunion. o__O http://plurk.com/p/2pryse
jeremyuntouched: @kthxilyxxx my Phone broke so icannot Contact u.....
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