Noun

(en noun)

The act of touching physically; being in close association.

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, 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.

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Noun

(en noun)

The manner in which two things may be associated.

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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations . It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.

A member of one's family.

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The act of relating a story.

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A set of ordered tuples.

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*:Signs are, first of all, physical things: for example, chalk marks on a blackboard, pencil or ink marks on paper, sound waves produced in a human throat. According to Reichenbach, "What makes them signs is the intermediary position they occupy between an object and a sign user, i.e., a person." For a sign to be a sign, or to function as such, it is necessary that the person take account of the object it designates. Thus, anything in nature may or may not be a sign, depending on a person's attitude toward it. A physical thing is a sign when it appears as a substitute for, or representation of, the object for which it stands with respect to the sign user. The three-place relation' between sign, object, and sign user is called the ''sign '''relation''''' or '''''relation of denotation .

(lb) Specifically , a set of ordered pairs.

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(lb) A set of ordered tuples retrievable by a relational database; a table.

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(lb) A statement of equality of two products of generators, used in the presentation of a group.

The act of intercourse.