Brought in contact with, as touching the sides of a ship. In astronomy, bringing a reflected body, as the sun, in contact with the moon or with a star. (See lunar distances, sextant, &c.)
·noun The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. II. Contact ·noun A close union or ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
In a transit of Mercury or Venus over the sun's disc, this expression means the first touch of the p...
The Sailor's Word-Book
This, in a transit of Mercury or Venus across the solar disc, occurs when the planet is just within ...