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, by the intrusion of magma, or through faulting or other deformation of rock beds that brings distinct rock bodies into contac ...

, 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 Contact sports are sports that emphasize or require physical contact between players. Some sports, such as mixed martial arts, are scored on impacting an opponent, while others, including rugby football, gridiron football and Australian rules fo ...

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

Contact juggling Contact juggling 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 more ...

Contact mechanics Contact mechanics is the study of the deformation of solids that touch each other at one or more points.Johnson, K. L, 1985, Contact mechanics, Cambridge University Press.Popov, Valentin L., 2010, ''Contact Mechanics and Friction. Physical Pri ...

, 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 ca ...

* ''

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

'', 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 amateu ...

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 visitati ...

, a concept related to visitation rights *

Contact (social) A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for a ...

, a person who can offer help in achieving goals *

Contact Conference Contact is an annual interdisciplinary conference that brings togetheto exchange ideas, stimulate new perspectives, and encourage serious, creative speculation about humanity's future. The intent of Contact is to promote the integration of human fa ...

, an annual scientific conference * Extraterrestrial contact, see

Search for extraterrestrial intelligence The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other pl ...

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 with ...

, an initial meeting of two cultures *

Language contact Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact and influence each other. The study of language contact is called contact linguistics. When speakers of different languages interact closely, it is typical for th ...

, the interaction of two or more languages

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''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), 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 f ...

* ''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

* ''Contact'' (ATB album) * ''Contact'' (Boney James album) * ''Contact'' (Fancy album) * ''Contact'' (Fantastic Plastic Machine album) * ''Contact'' (Freda Payne album) * ''Contact'' (Indo G album) * ''Contact'' (Mad Heads album) * ''Contact'' (Minori Chihara album) * ''Contact'' (Noisettes album) * ''Contact'' (Platinum Blonde album) * ''Contact'' (Pointer Sisters album) * ''Contact'' (Silver Apples album) * ''Contact'' (Thirteen Senses album) * ''Contact'', an album by

The Benjamin Gate The Benjamin Gate was a South African Christian rock band formed in 1998 by friends of musician Ben Herbert following his death in a traffic collision. Their name, which was also the name of one of the entrances into the original city of Jer ...

Contact! (Eiffel 65 album) ''Contact!'' is the second album by Italian Dance trio Eiffel 65. Released on 24 July 2001, the album contains lyrics in both English and Italian. Development and sound Work on the album originally began in May 2000, while Eiffel 65 were on a t ...

, 2001 *

Contact! (Ray Barretto album) ''Contact!'' is an album by the American musician Ray Barretto, released in 1998. He is credited with his band, New World Spirit. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award, in the "Best Latin Jazz Performance" category. Barretto supported the alb ...

, 1998

Songs

* "Contact" (Daft Punk song) (2013) * "Contact" (Edwin Starr song) (1978) * "Contact", a song by Anthrax from ''

We've Come for You All ''We've Come for You All'' is the ninth studio album by American heavy metal band Anthrax. It was released on May 6, 2003 through Nuclear Blast in Europe and Sanctuary Records in North America. This was the first Anthrax record to feature Rob C ...

'' * "Contact", a song by Big Audio Dynamite from ''

Megatop Phoenix ''Megatop Phoenix'' is the fourth and final studio album by the original line-up of English band Big Audio Dynamite, released on 4 September 1989 by CBS Records. Mick Jones and Bill Price produced the album. It was recorded at the Kinks' Kon ...

'' * "Contact", a song by

Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( ; ; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a former French actress, singer and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters with hedonistic lifestyles, she was one of the ...

* "Contact", a song by

Brooklyn Bounce Brooklyn Bounce is one of several pseudonyms used by German producers Matthias Menck (Double M) and Dennis Bohn (Bonebreaker). They have also produced music under the names Mental Madness Productions and Beatbox feat. Rael. Menck and Bohn have cre ...

* "Contact", a song by Kyo from ''

300 Lésions ''300 Lésions'' is a 2004 album recorded by French pop-rock act Kyo. It was released on December 28, 2004, and achieved huge success in France, Belgium (Wallonia) and Switzerland, where it was respectively #1, #1 and #2. This album, entirely co ...

'' * "Contact", a song by

Glenn Morrison Glenn Adam Morrison (born 28 May 1976), is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer and coach. He played for the Parramatta Eels, the Balmain Tigers, the North Sydney Bears and the North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rug ...

* "Contact", a song by Phish from ''

Junta Junta may refer to: Government and military * Junta (governing body) (from Spanish), the name of various historical and current governments and governing institutions, including civil ones ** Military junta, one form of junta, government led by ...

'' * "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 2 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: "Message ...

'' * "Contact", a song by Spirit from ''

Rapture in the Chambers ''Rapture in the Chambers'' is the 12th album by Spirit (band), Spirit. It was their first "proper" album since their 1984 album ''The Thirteenth Dream, Spirit of 84'', which had featured the entire original line-up. Their albums since that time ...

'' * "Contact", a song from the musical ''

Rent Rent may refer to: Economics *Renting, an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property *Economic rent, any payment in excess of the cost of production *Rent-seeking, attempting to increase one's share of e ...

Television

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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Contact'' (magazine), an American literary "little magazine" * ''Contact'' (musical), a 1999 dance play * ''Contact'' (novel), a novel by Carl Sagan *

Contact (The Culture) The Culture is a fictional interstellar post-scarcity civilisation or society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks and features in a number of his space opera novels and works of short fiction, collectively called the Culture series. ...

, a fictional organization in the works of Iain M. Banks

Brands and enterprises

Contact Air Contact Air Flugdienst was a German regional airline from Filderstadt. With flight operations based at Stuttgart Airport, it operated scheduled passenger flights under the Lufthansa Regional brand. History The airline was founded in 1974 as a ...

, 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 Contact is an arts organisation in Manchester, England that focuses on youth leadership. History Contact was founded in 1972 by Barry Sheppard (General Manager of what was then Manchester University Theatre) and Hugh Hunt (Professor of Drama) ...

, a multi-disciplinary arts venue in Manchester, England

Other uses

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

, an equivalence relation *

Contact print A contact print is a photographic image produced from film; sometimes from a film negative, and sometimes from a film positive or paper negative. In a darkroom an exposed and developed piece of film or photographic paper is placed emulsion si ...

, a kind of photographic image *

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

, a method of producing sulfuric acid * Transit (astronomy)#Contacts, specific points in time during a transit or eclipse *

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 ...

, a lens worn directly on the eye *

Contact paper Contact paper is an adhesive paper used as a covering or lining. Description Contact paper is an inexpensive material that has a decorative surface on one side and a highly adhesive material on the other side. The paper sticks to the desired sur ...

or contact, a self-adhesive, PVC or paper film, used for covering or lining *

Contact, Nevada Contact is an unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada, United States. It is located on a mineral-rich granite intrusion and there are many mines nearby. History A post office was established at Contact in 1897, and remained in operatio ...

, an unincorporated community in the United States