Noun

(en noun)

The act of touching physically; being in close association.

* {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}

The establishment of communication (with).

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, […], he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}

A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.

Someone with whom one is in communication.

(label) A contact lens.

(label) A device designed for repetitive connections.

Contact juggling.

(mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

(Raymond)

Noun

(en noun)

(en) A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.

* 1985, Richard I. Henderson, Compensation Management: Rewarding Performance , Fourth Edition,^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=3AVHAAAAMAAJ]} Reston Pub. Co., ISBN 0835909743, page 604,

Of significant current interest is the fact that the compa-ratio can be used to analyze the pay treatment of specific groups of employees. Segregating employees by such demographics as gender, race, or age group (e.g., 18–25, 26–39, 40–50, 51–65), a compa-ratio analysis could provide a first indication […]

* 2000, James Chapman, “Impact of Building Roads to Everywhere”, in Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres (eds.), Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta ,^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=Arg-DU8tQF8C]} Island Press, ISBN 1-55963-790-0, page 82,

How will this investment affect at the individual level, based on being disaggregated by various demographics (race and ethnicity, gender, age, disability, income) and locations (inner city, inner ring suburbs, suburbs, exurbs), miles traveled, travel time, accessibility to transit, and car ownership?

A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.

* 2002, Laura Grindstaff, ‘Pretty Woman with a Gun: '' and the Textual Politics of “The Remake”’, in Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos (eds.), ''Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice ,^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=R1CRyD4Bs44C]} State University of New York Press, ISBN 0-7914-5169-0, page 281,

[…] it was also the initial verdict for before the show garnered something of a cult following among the crucial 30–something demographic , at which point the critical response grew decidedly more favorable.

* 2006 , Tom Hutchison, Amy Macy, Paul Allen, Record Label Marketing , Elsevier, page 189,

A newspaper is consumed by many demographics , a small portion of which may be the target.

* 2006, Kelley Keehn, The Woman's Guide to Money ,^{[http://books.google.com/books?id=cgRSZWh0BdkC]} Insomniac Press, ISBN 1897178085, page 44,

As a member of the Generation X demographic , I'm saddened to admit that paying with plastic (whether debit or credit card) has superseded paying with real money.

* 2012 , 24 June (Sun), Debbie Arrington, "Racing Fans are being courted", The Sacramento Bee , page C1, col. 4

"The demographic for NASCAR is people who eat," said Steve Page, president of the former Infineon Raceway

(en) An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.