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Contact means to touch physically or to communicate with.

Contact may also refer to one of the things below.

In social interaction

Social contact, a person known to an individual, possibly on a different basis than friendship
vCard or hCard, in address books, a contact is the name, address, phone number, and other pertinent information
First contact (anthropology), between different cultures
Amateur radio contact, an exchange of information between two amateur radio operators
To actually touch in some way, be it physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual

Contact mechanics, a mathematical approach for calculating the stresses and deformations when two objects are pressed against each other
Contact process, a method for producing sulfuric acid on an industrial scale
Active component of an electric switch or electrical connector
Contact (mathematics), 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

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 or derived former Commonwealth armed forces

Contact (musical), a dance musical
Contact (novel), a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan
Contact (film), a movie based on the book
Contact (Macedonian 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