Contact

Contact means to touch physically or to communicate with.

Contact could also mean:

General uses

• Contact lens, a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens
• Contact process, a method for producing sulfuric acid on an industrial scale
• Contact network, a type of social network
• 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.
• Amateur radio contact, an exchange of information between two amateur radio operators
• Contact massage, massage that is done by hands or special electronic aids
• In military parlance a contact is a chance encounter with the enemy, typically while undertaking patrolling operations. Especially common in Britain, Australia/New Zealand and probably other Commonwealth forces such as India.

In music

• Contact (musical), a dance musical

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 (Indo G album), an album by Indo G
• Contact (Minori Chihara album), an album by Minori Chihara.

Songs

• "Contact", a song by Thirteen senses from the above album.
• "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 (song)", by the French rock band Kyo.
• "Contact" (Phish song), an early Phish song

Other media

• Contact (novel), a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan
• Contact (movie), a movie based on the book
• 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 (game), a word-guessing game.
• Contact is English for Contacto, a publication of the British Interlingua Society.