Usually means: Interaction between two separate entities.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word contact:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. contact: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contact, contact: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contact: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contact: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contact: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contact, contact, contact: Wordnik
  7. contact: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contact: Wiktionary
  9. contact: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contact: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contact: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. contact: Dictionary.com
  13. contact (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. contact: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Contact (ATB album), Contact (Daft Punk song), Contact (Edwin Starr song), Contact (Freda Payne album), Contact (Indo G album), Contact (Motion Picture), Contact (Noisettes album), Contact (Platinum Blonde album), Contact (Pointer Sisters album), Contact (Silver Apples album), Contact (Thirteen Senses album), Contact (amateur radio), Contact (disambiguation), Contact (film), Contact (geology), Contact (law), Contact (magazine), Contact (mathematics), Contact (movie), Contact (musical), Contact (novel), Contact (social), Contact (song), Contact (video game), Contact, Contact, The Contact: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Contact: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. contact: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. contact: Rhymezone
  19. contact, contact (het), contact (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. contact: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. contact: Free Dictionary
  22. contact: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. contact: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. contact: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. contact: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. contact: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  3. Contact (law): Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Contact (mathematics): Encyclopedia
  2. contact: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  4. contact: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. CONTACT: Acronym Finder
  4. contact: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. contact: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Game Theory Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  2. Contact: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Contact: Croquet
  2. Contact: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. contact: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See contacted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of touching physically; being in close association.
noun:  The establishment of communication (with).
noun:  The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
noun:  A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
noun:  Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
noun:  (by extension) Means of communication with a person, especially in the form of a telephone number.
noun:  (informal) A contact lens.
noun:  (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
noun:  (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
noun:  (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
verb:  (transitive, occasionally proscribed) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
verb:  (transitive, occasionally proscribed) To establish communication with (something or someone).

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