• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (jiēchù)

• Dutch: aanraken
• Finnish: koskea
• French: toucher
• German: berühren
• Ido: kontaktar
• Japanese: 接触する, 接続する
• Portuguese: entrar em contato, tocar
• Telugu: అంటుకొను (aMTukonu), ముట్టుకొను (muTTukonu), తాకు (taaku)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (liánxì)

• Danish: kontakte
• Dutch: contacteren
• Finnish: ottaa yhteyttä, ottaa yhteys
• French: contacter
• German: kontaktieren
• Hebrew: ליצור קשר (litzor qesher)
• Italian: contattare
• Japanese: 連絡する
• Portuguese: entrar em contato, contatar, contactar
• Romanian: contacta
• Russian: контактировать (kontaktirovat'), связываться/связаться (sv'ázyvat's'a/sv'azat's'a)
• Spanish: contactar
• Swedish: kontakta
• Telugu: సంపర్కించు (saMparkiMchu)

The translations below need to be checked by native speakers and inserted into the appropriate table(s) above.

• ttbc Spanish: entrar en contacto con

Contact means to touch physically or to communicate with.

Contact may also refer to one of the things below.

In social interaction

• A social contact, a person known to an indvidual, possibly on a different basis to friendship.
• vCard or hCard, in address books, a contact is the name, address, phone number, and other pertinent information
• First contact between different cultures.
• Amateur radio contact, an exchange of information between two amateur radio operators

In science and technology

• Contact process, a method for producing sulfuric acid on an industrial scale
• Active component of electric switch or electrical connector
• 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
• Radar contact, the display of a single radar return from an object as a result of one radar sweep. (Compare with track).
• Contact paper, in photography, used to print negatives without enlargement
• The Contact Conference, an annual interdisciplinary scientific conference

In professional terminology

• Contact (law), in Family Law, deals with the right of parents or other significant persons to meet with and relate to a child
• In military parlance, a contact is an encounter with the enemy that results in an engagement. Especially common in Britain and British trained/derived former Commonwealth armed forces.

In healthcare

• Contact lens, a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens
• Contact massage, massage that is done by hands or special electronic aids

Companies and organisations

• CONTACT USA, a Crisis Hotline.
• Contact Air
• Contact Energy, an energy company in New Zealand

Media

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.
• Contact (7for4 album), an album by 7for4.

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 (musical), a dance musical
• Contact (novel), a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan
• Contact (film), a movie based on the book
• Contact (film), a 2005 Macedonian movie starring Nikola Kojo
• 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.

Other

• Contact sport

See also

• Contact!
• 3-2-1 Contact

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