Touch is one of the sensations processed by the somatosensory system. Touch may also refer to:

Places

Touch (river) The Touch (; oc, Toish) is a long river in southwestern France, left tributary of the Garonne. Its source is in the ''département in France, département'' of Haute-Garonne, near Lilhac. It flows through the following ''départements'' and town ...

, in France *

Touch House Touch House is a country house located west of Stirling in central Scotland. It stands at the foot of the Touch Hills, on the south side of the River Forth. The house incorporates a 16th-century tower house, but its present form dates to the mid ...

, a mansion near Stirling, Scotland

Computing and technology

touch (command) In computing, touch is a command used to update the access date and/or modification date of a computer file or directory. It is included in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, TSC's FLEX, Digital Research/Novell DR DOS, the AROS shell, the Micr ...

, a computer program *

HTC Touch The HTC Touch, also known as the HTC P3450 or its codename the HTC Elf or the HTC Vogue for the CDMA variant, is a Windows Mobile 6-powered Pocket PC designed and manufactured by HTC. Its main, unique feature is a user interface named ''TouchFLO'' ...

, a touchscreen phone *

iPod Touch The iPod Touch (stylized as iPod touch) is a discontinued line of iOS-based mobile devices designed and marketed by Apple Inc. with a touchscreen-controlled user interface. As with other iPod models, the iPod Touch can be used as a music pl ...

, a portable media player, PDA, and Wi-Fi platform *

Multi-touch In computing, multi-touch is technology that enables a surface (a touchpad or touchscreen) to recognize the presence of more than one somatosensory system, point of contact with the surface at the same time. The origins of multitouch began at CER ...

, capability of a flat screen to detect touch gestures. * Ubuntu Touch, an interface

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics and manga

* ''Touch'' (manga), a 1985 manga and anime series by Mitsuru Adachi * ''Touch'', a 6-issue comic book series published under the DC Focus imprint

Film

* ''Touch'' (1997 film), by Paul Schrader * ''Touch'' (2005 film), by director Isshin Inudō * ''The Touch'' (1971 film), by Ingmar Bergman * ''The Touch'' (2002 film), by Peter Pau

Television

* ''Touch'' (American TV series), a 2012–2013 American thriller television series * ''Touch'' (South Korean TV series), a 2020 South Korean television series

Literature

* ''Touch'', a 1987 book by

Elmore Leonard Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thri ...

* ''Touch'', a 2014 book by

Natalia Jaster Natalia Jaster is an American author of fantasy romance. Her debut novel, ''Touch'', is a re-imagination of the story of Eros featuring the female goddess Love who is forced to pair up a mortal boy with whom she has fallen in love. Her second nove ...

* ''Touch'', a 2022 book by

Olaf Olafsson Olaf or Olav (, , or British ; Old Norse: ''Áleifr'', ''Ólafr'', ''Óleifr'', ''Anleifr'') is a Scandinavian and German given name. It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstructed as ''*Anu-laibaz'', from ''anu'' "ancestor, grand-father" a ...

Music

Groups

* Touch (1960s band), an American rock band *

Touch (1980s band) In physiology, the somatosensory system is the network of neural structures in the brain and body that produce the perception of touch (haptic perception), as well as temperature (thermoception), body position (proprioception), and pain. It is ...

, a 1980s American rock band *

Touch (girl group) The Spice Girls are a British girl group formed in 1994, consisting of Melanie Brown, also known as Mel B ("Scary Spice"); Melanie Chisholm, or Melanie C ("Sporty Spice"); Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"); Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"); and Victor ...

, the original name of Spice Girls *

Touch (South Korean group) Touch (Hangul: 터치; shortened from The Original Undeniable Charismatic Homme) is a South Korean boy band formed by YYJ Entertainment in Seoul, South Korea. The group currently consists of five members: Chulmin, Sungyong, Jaewook, Sunwoong an ...

, Korean boy band

Albums

* ''Touch'' (Amerie album), or the title song * ''Touch'' (Brian Howe album), by Brian Howe * ''Touch'' (Con Funk Shun album), 1980 * ''Touch'' (Delirious? album), or the title song * ''Touch'' (Eurythmics album), 1983 * ''Touch'' (July Talk album), 2016 * ''Touch'' (Laura Branigan album), or the title song * ''Touch'' (NEWS album), 2005 * ''Touch'' (Noiseworks album), or the title song * ''Touch'' (Sarah McLachlan album), or the title song * ''Touch'' (The Supremes album), or the title song * ''Touch'', by Touch (1960s band) * ''Touch'' (EP), or the title song, by Miss A * ''Touch'', by

Dave Grohl David Eric Grohl (born January 14, 1969) is an American musician. He is the founder of the rock band Foo Fighters, in which he is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter. Prior to forming Foo Fighters, he was the drummer of gru ...

, a soundtrack album from Paul Schrader's film ''Touch''

Songs

* "Touch" (Amerie song), 2005 * "Touch", a song by Daft Punk from the 2013 album '' Random Access Memories'' * "Touch: (Earth, Wind & Fire song), 1984 * "Touch" (Little Mix song), 2016 * "Touch" (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2010 * "Touch" (Noiseworks song), 1988 * "Touch" (NCT 127 song), 2018 * "Touch" (Omarion song), 2004 *"Touch", 1966 song by the band The Outsiders * "Touch" (Pia Mia song), 2015 * "Touch" (Shift K3Y song), 2014 * "Touch" (Sori song), 2018 * "Touch" (The Supremes song), 1971 * "Touch" (Tea Party song), 2000 *"

Touch / Yume no Tsuzuki "Touch" / "Yume no Tsuzuki" (タッチ / 夢の続き) is the fourth single of Younha released on September 7, 2005. It is a cover of the opening theme of Touch originally by Yoshimi Iwasaki is a Japanese singer and actress. She is notable fo ...

", 2005 song by Younha

Other arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Touch'' (ballet), a ballet by David Parsons *

Touch FM {{Use British English, date=June 2016 The Touch FM network was a group of local commercial radio stations owned by Quidem. The network included stations in Coventry, South Staffordshire, Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Nuneaton & Hinckley, Loughborou ...

Touch Music Touch (sometimes mistakenly written 'Touch Records' and sometimes written Touch Music, which is technically the publishing side of the company) is a British audio-visual organisation, operating the Touch label. Touch was founded in 1982 by Jon ...

, an audio-visual publishing company based in the UK *

Touch! Generations is a Nintendo brand used for the Nintendo DS and Wii showing games created to appeal to a broader audience (mainly adults and the elderly) than the traditional gamer. Nintendo retired the brand with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS in 2011, six ye ...

, a video-game brand

Sports

* Touch football (disambiguation) * Touch (rugby), an area of a rugby field * Touch (sport), a sport derived from rugby football

Other uses

* Consoling touch, a social behaviour * Touch, a characteristic of a

tangent In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Leibniz defined it as the line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve. More ...

, in geometry * Touch, a clothing line by Alyssa Milano * Touch typing, typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys *

Russian Bank Russian Bank, Crapette or Tunj, historically also called Wrangle, is a card game for two players from the patience family. It is played with two decks of 52 standard playing cards. The U.S. Playing Card Company, who first published its rules, cal ...

, a card game