Contact sportA contact sport is any sport where physical contact between competitors, or their environment, is an integral part of the game. Examples include gridiron football, rugby football, martial arts, and acrobatic sports. Contact may come about as the result of intentional or incidental actions by the players in the course of play.Contact ConferenceContact is an annual interdisciplinary conference that brings together social and space scientists, science fiction writers, and artists to 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 factors into space research and policy, to explore the intersection of science and art, and to develop ethical approaches to cross-cultural contact.
Contact mechanicsStudy of the deformation of solids that touch each other Stresses in a contact area loaded simultaneously with a normal and a tangential force. Stresses were made visible using photoelasticity.Contact/IIContact/II, or simply Contact II, was an American literary magazine from New York. Established in 1976, the periodical was edited by Maurice Kenny and Josh Gosciak. Contact II published poetry, reviews, and interviews. Contact II also published books and chapbooks of contemporary poetry. The name Contact II was a tribute to Contact, a small press poetry magazine produced in the 1920s and 1930s by William Carlos Williams.
Contact lensLenses placed on the eye's surfaceA pair of contact lenses, positioned with the concave side facing upwardOne-day disposable contact lenses with blue handling tint in blister-pack packagingContact 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 in 2012, and they can be worn to correct vision or for cosmetic or therapeutic reasons.
SparśaSparśa (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 sense organ, the sense object, and sense consciousness (vijnana). For example, contact (sparsha) is said to occur at the coming together of the eye organ, a visual object, and the visual sense consciousness.
Contact (geology)In geology, a contact is a boundary that 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 contact. The geologic subdiscipline of stratigraphy is primarily concerned with depositional contacts, while faults and shear zones are of particular interest in structural geology.
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 amateur radio station, and a signal report. A contact is often referred to by the Q code QSO. It is often limited to just a minimal exchange of such station IDs. Stations that have made a contact are said to have worked each other.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. The visitation term is not used in a shared parenting arrangement where both parents have joint physical custody. Unsupervised visitation is the most common type, when the parent may take the child to their home or enjoy any outing with the child.
Contact jugglingContact 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 more objects without releasing them into the air.
Contact process (mathematics)The contact process is a stochastic process used to model population growth on the set of sites S{\displaystyle 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 occupied neighboring sites.
Search for extraterrestrial intelligenceEffort to find civilizations not from EarthArecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico with its 300 m (980 ft) dish was one of the world's largest filled-aperture (i.e., full dish) radio telescopes and conducted some SETI searches.The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (usually shortened as SETI) is the diverse efforts and scientific projects intended to detect extraterrestrial signals, or any evidence of intelligent life beyond Earth.
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