Contact

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

II. Contact ·noun A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

III. Contact ·noun The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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