Contact may refer to:

Interaction

Physical interaction

Contact (geology) A geological contact is a boundary which separates one rock body from another. A contact can be formed during Deposition (geology), deposition, by the Intrusion (geology), intrusion of magma, or through Fault (geology), faulting or other deformation ...

, a common geological feature *

Contact lens Contact lenses, or simply contacts, are thin lenses placed directly on the surface of the eyes. Contact lenses are ocular prosthetic devices used by over 150 million people worldwide, and they can be worn to correct vision or for cosmetic ...

or contact, a lens placed on the eye *

Contact sport A contact sport is any sport where physical contact between competitors, or their environment, is an integral part of the game. For example, gridiron football. Contact may come about as the result of intentional or incidental actions by the playe ...

, a sport in which players make contact with other players or objects *

Contact juggling Contact manipulation is a form of object manipulation that focuses on the movement of objects such as balls in contact with the body. Although often used in conjunction with "toss juggling", it differs in that it involves the rolling of one or ...

Contact mechanics Contact mechanics is the study of the Deformation (mechanics), deformation of solids that touch each other at one or more points. A central distinction in contact mechanics is between Stress (mechanics), stresses acting perpendicular to the cont ...

, the study of solid objects that deform when touching each other *

Contact process (mathematics) The contact process is a stochastic process used to model population growth on the set of sites S of a graph in which occupied sites become vacant at a constant rate, while vacant sites become occupied at a rate proportional to the number of occupi ...

, a model of an interacting particle system *

Electrical contacts An electrical contact is an electrical circuit component found in electrical switches, relays, connectors and circuit breakers. Each contact is a piece of electrically conductive material, typically metal. When a pair of contacts touch, they ...

* ''

Sparśa Sparśa (Sanskrit: स्पर्श; Pali: ''phassa'') is a Sanskrit term that is translated as "contact", "touching", "sensation", "sense impression", etc. It is defined as the coming together of three factors: the Ayatana, sense organ, the A ...

'', a concept in Buddhism that in Sanskrit/Indian language is translated as "contact", "touching", "sensation", "sense impression", etc.

Social interaction

Contact (amateur radio) An amateur radio contact, more commonly referred to as simply a "contact", is an exchange of information between two amateur radio stations. The exchange usually consists of an initial call, a response by another amateur radio operator at an amat ...

Contact (law) In family law, contact, visitation and access are synonym terms that denotes the time that a child spends with the noncustodial parent, according to an agreed or court specified parenting schedule.Cambridge DictionaryVisitation/ref> The visita ...

, a concept related to visitation rights *

Contact (social) A social network is a social structure consisting of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), networks of Dyad (sociology), dyadic ties, and other Social relation, social interactions between actors. The social network per ...

, a person who can offer help in achieving goals * Contact Conference, an annual scientific conference * Extraterrestrial contact, see

Search for extraterrestrial intelligence The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (usually shortened as SETI) is an expression that refers to the diverse efforts and scientific projects intended to detect extraterrestrial signals, or any evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth. ...

First contact (anthropology) In anthropology, first contact is the first meeting of two communities previously without contact with one another. Notable examples of first contact are those between the Spanish Empire and the Arawak in 1492; and the Aboriginal Australians wit ...

, an initial meeting of two cultures *

Language contact Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. Language contact can occur at language borders, between adstratum ...

, the interaction of two or more languages

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''The Contact'' (1963 film), educational film starring John Hurt * ''Contact'' (1978 film), a Soviet animated short film * ''Contact'' (1992 film), a short film by Jonathan Darby, with Brad Pitt * ''Contact'' (1997 American film), a science fiction drama film adapted from the Carl Sagan novel * ''The Contact'' (1997 South Korean film), (접속 Jeopsok, "connection"), a romance film * ''Contact'', a 2002 short film by

Kieran Galvin Kieran Galvin (born 5 May 1966) is an Irish-born Australian film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed four award-winning short films (''The Burning Boy, Bad Ass Mono-Winged Angel, Contact, Other People''), before he made his debut fea ...

* ''Contact'' (2009 film), an Australian documentary film

Games

* ''Contact'' (tile game) * ''Contact'' (video game), a 2006 role-playing video game * ''Contact'', a social word-guessing game similar to Botticelli

Music

Albums

Songs

* "Contact" (Daft Punk song) (2013) * "Contact" (Edwin Starr song) (1978) * "Contact", a song by Anthrax from '' We've Come for You All'' * "Contact", a song by Big Audio Dynamite from '' Megatop Phoenix'' * "Contact", a song by

Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( ; ; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist. Famous for portraying characters with Hedonism, hedonistic life ...

* "Contact", a song by Brooklyn Bounce * "Contact", a song by Kyo from '' 300 Lésions'' * "Contact", a song by Glenn Morrison * "Contact", a song by Phish from '' Junta'' * "Contact", a song by The Police from ''

Reggatta de Blanc ''Reggatta de Blanc'' is the second studio album by British rock band the Police, released on 5 October 1979 by A&M Records. It was the band's first release to top the UK Albums Chart and features their first two UK number-one singles: " Messa ...

'' * "Contact", a song by Spirit from '' Rapture in the Chambers'' * "Contact", a song from the musical '' Rent''

Television

* "Contact", a 1995 episode of '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'' * "Contact" (''Saving Hope''), a 2012 episode of ''Saving Hope'' * "Contact" (''Halo''), the series premiere of ''Halo''

Literature

* ''Contact'' (magazine), an American literary "little magazine" * ''Contact'' (novel), a novel by Carl Sagan * ''The Contact'', a 1985 novel by Garikai Mutasa

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Contact'' (musical), a 1999 dance play * Contact (''The Culture''), a fictional organization in the works of Iain M. Banks

Brands and enterprises

* Contact Air, an airline *

Contact Energy Contact Energy Limited is a New Zealand electricity generation, electricity generator, a wholesaler of natural gas, and a retailer of electricity retailing, electricity, natural gas, broadband and Liquefied petroleum gas, LPG. It is the second ...

, an energy company * Contact Theatre, a multi-disciplinary arts venue in Manchester, England

Other uses

Contact (mathematics) In mathematics, two functions have a contact of order if, at a point , they have the same value and their first derivatives are equal. This is an equivalence relation, whose equivalence classes are generally called jets. The point of osculat ...

, an equivalence relation * Contact paper or contact, a self-adhesive, PVC or paper film, used for covering or lining *

Contact print A contact print is a photographic image produced from Photographic film, film; sometimes from a film negative (photography), negative, and sometimes from a film positive or paper negative. In a darkroom an exposed and developed piece of film or ...

, a kind of photographic image *

Contact process The contact process is a method of producing sulfuric acid in the high concentrations needed for industrial processes. Platinum was originally used as the catalyst for this reaction; however, because it is susceptible to reacting with arsenic impu ...

, a method of producing sulfuric acid * Contact, Nevada, USA; an unincorporated community * Contacts (Apple), address book software included with several Apple operating systems * Google Contacts, a contact management service developed by Google * Transit (astronomy)#Contacts, specific points in time during a transit or eclipse