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contact

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1. contact - Noun

2. contact - Verb

Meaning

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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

The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction. Heinrich Heine

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. Bill Watterson

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. François Mitterrand

The earthen pan gains nothing by contact with the copper pot. Danish Proverb

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