| 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 |
carpet bombing
area bombing
saturation bombing | an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target |
blastoderm
germinal disc
blastodisc
germinal area | a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
airfoil
aerofoil
control surface
surface | a device that provides reactive force when in motion relative to the surrounding air, can lift or control a plane in flight |
air-to-ground missile
air-to-surface missile | a missile designed to be launched from an airplane at a target on the ground |
| area | a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function, the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants |
breakfast area
breakfast nook | a place for light meals (usually near a kitchen), the breakfast nook had a built in table and seats |
cargo area
cargo deck
cargo hold
hold storage area | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo |
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 |
| dining area | an area arranged for dining, they put up tents for the dining area |
| electrical contact | contact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another |
equal-area projection
equal-area map projection | a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe |
exhibition hall
exhibition area | a large hall for holding exhibitions |
horizontal surface
level | a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line, park the car on the level |
launching pad
launchpad
launch pad
launch area
pad | a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched |
local area network
LAN | a local computer network for communication between computers, especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices |
lounge
waiting room
waiting area | a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait |
| paved surface | a level horizontal surface covered with paving material |
pull-off
rest area
rest stop
layby
lay-by | designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily |
| road surface | the paved surface of a paved roadway |
seating
seats
seating room
seating area | an area that includes places where several people can sit, there is seating forstudents in this classroom |
| surface | the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary, there is a special cleaner for these surfaces, the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface |
surface gauge
surface gage
scribing block | gauge consisting of a scriber mounted on an adjustable stand, used to test the accuracy of plane surfaces |
| surface lift | a ski tow that pulls skiers up a slope without lifting them off the ground |
| surface search radar | a naval radar to search for surface targets |
| surface ship | a warship that operates on the surface of the water |
surface-to-air missile
SAM | a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target |
| surface-to-air missile system | the shipboard system that fires missiles at aircraft |
| upper surface | the side that is uppermost |
| vertical surface | a surface that is vertical |
wide area network
WAN | a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network |
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 |
wireless local area network
WLAN
wireless fidelity
WiFi | a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet, uses ethernet protocol |
| work surface | a horizontal surface for supporting objects used in working or playing games |
area
expanse
surface area | the extent of a -dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary, the area of a rectangle, it was about square feet in area |
acreage
land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
area
region | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve, in the abdominal region |
| area of cardiac dullness | a triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion), corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs |
macula
macula lutea
macular area
yellow spot | a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision |
pyriform area
piriform area
pyriform lobe
piriform lobe | pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon |
cortical area
cortical region | any of various regions of the cerebral cortex |
association area
association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
auditory area
auditory cortex | the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body |
Broca's area
Broca's center
Broca's gyrus
Broca's convolution
convolution of Broca | the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people |
| Brodmann's area | one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture |