contact | close interaction, they kept in daily contact, they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings |
eye contact | contact that occurs when two people look directly at each other, a teacher should make eye contact with the students |
contact physical contact | the act of touching physically, her fingers came in contact with the light switch |
contact sport | a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players |
high-angle fire | fire from a cannon that is fired at an elevation greater than that for the maximum range |
angle bracket angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
contact tangency | (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact, they forget to solder the contacts |
contact contact lens | a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication |
contact print | a print made by exposing a photosensitive surface to direct contact with a photographic negative |
deckle edge deckle | rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper |
edge | a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object, he rounded the edges of the box |
edge | the outside limit of an object or area or surface, a place farthest away from the center of something, the edge of the leaf is wavy, she sat on the edge of the bed, the water's edge |
edge tool | any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) |
electrical contact | contact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another |
fore edge foredge | the part of a book that faces inward when the book is shelved, the part opposite the spine |
high-angle gun | a cannon that can be fired at a high elevation for relatively short ranges |
knife edge cutting edge | the sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife |
leading edge | forward edge of an airfoil |
razor edge | an edge that is as sharp as the cutting side of a razor |
trailing edge | the rear edge of an airfoil |
wide-angle lens fisheye lens | a camera lens having a wider than normal angle of view (and usually a short focal length), produces an image that is foreshortened in the center and increasingly distorted in the periphery |
wiper wiper arm contact arm | contact consisting of a conducting arm that rotates over a series of fixed contacts and comes to rest on an outlet |
camera angle | the point of view of a camera |
knife-edge | a narrow boundary, he lived on a knife-edge between genius and insanity |
edge | a slight competitive advantage, he had an edge on the competition |
edge sharpness | the attribute of urgency in tone of voice, his voice had an edge to it |
vanguard forefront cutting edge | the position of greatest importance or advancement, the leading position in any movement or field, the Cotswolds were once at the forefront of woollen manufacturing in England, the idea of motion was always to the forefront of his mind and central to his philosophy |
slant angle | a biased way of looking at or presenting something |
liaison link contact inter-group communication | a channel for communication between groups, he provided a liaison with the guerrillas |
bracket angle bracket | either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material |
eye contact | a meeting of the eyes between two people that expresses meaningful nonverbal communication, it was a mere glance, but the eye contact was enough to tell her that he was desperate to leave |
contact touch | a communicative interaction, the pilot made contact with the base, he got in touch with his colleagues |
contact impinging striking | the physical coming together of two or more things, contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull |
edge border | the boundary of a surface |
hour angle | the angular distance along the celestial equator from the observer's meridian to the hour circle of a given celestial body |
Angle | a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons |
contact middleman | a person who is in a position to give you special assistance, he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor |
catalysis contact action | acceleration of a chemical reaction induced the presence of material that is chemically unchanged at the end of the reaction, of the topcommodity chemicals,are created directly by catalysis and another are made from raw materials that are catalytically produced |
straight angle | an angle ofdegrees |
helix angle | the constant angle at which a helix cuts the elements of a cylinder or cone |
angle | the space between two lines or planes that intersect, the inclination of one line to another, measured in degrees or radians |
hour angle HA | (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing, the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day |
plane angle | an angle formed by two straight lines (in the same plane) |
spherical angle | an angle formed at the intersection of the arcs of two great circles |
solid angle | an angle formed by three or more planes intersecting at a common point (the vertex) |
inclination angle of inclination | (geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis) |
reentrant angle reentering angle | an interior angle of a polygon that is greater thandegrees |
salient angle | an angle pointing outward, an interior angle of a polygon that is less thandegrees |
interior angle internal angle | the angle inside two adjacent sides of a polygon |
exterior angle external angle | the supplement of an interior angle of a polygon |