Contact

Contact means to touch physically or to communicate with.

Contact could also mean:

General uses
 Contact lens, a corrective, cosmetic, or therapeutic lens
 Contact process, a method for producing sulfuric acid on an industrial scale
 Contact network, a type of social network
 Contact (law), in Family Law, deals with the right of parents or other significant persons to meet with and relate to a child
 Active component of electric switch or electrical connector
 vCard or hCard, in address books, a contact is the name, address, phone number, and other pertinent information
 Contact paper, in photography, used to print negatives without enlargement
 Contact (mathematics), a mathematical concept, the idea of curves (for example) touching
 Optical contacting, a process in which two highly polished surfaces are permanently or temporarily joined without use of any adhesive
 Contact Energy, an energy company in New Zealand
 The initial fighting with an enemy unit, in a military context
 Contact Conference, an annual interdisciplinary scientific conference
 Contact (social), a person renowned for performing special and often illegal favors for individuals in return for goods or services.
 First contact (anthropology) between different cultures.
 Radar contact, the display of a single radar return from an object as a result of one radar sweep
CONTACT USA, a crisis hotline.
 Amateur radio contact, an exchange of information between two amateur radio operators
Contact massage, massage that is done by hands or special electronic aids

In music
 Contact (musical), a dance musical
Albums
 Contact (Fantastic Plastic Machine album), an album by Fantastic Plastic Machine
 Contact!, an album by Eiffel 65
 Contact (Silver Apples album), an album by Silver Apples
 Contact, an album by The Benjamin Gate
 Contact (Thirteen Senses album), an album by Thirteen Senses.
 Contact (Indo G album), an album by Indo G
 Contact (Minori Chihara album), an album by Minori Chihara.

Songs
 "Contact", a song by Thirteen senses from the above album.
 "Contact", a song from the broadway version of the rock opera, "Rent".
 "Contact", a song by The Police from their 1979 album Reggatta de Blanc
 "Contact (song)", by the French rock band Kyo.
 "Contact" (Phish song), an early Phish song

Other media
 Contact (novel), a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan
 Contact (movie), a movie based on the book
 Contact (video game), a Nintendo DS game
 Contact (Dance), a dance production by Paul Mercurio
 Contact (The Culture), in novels by Iain M. Banks, the Exploration (and sometimes military) corp of the Culture
 Contact (game), a word-guessing game.
 Contact is English for Contacto, a publication of the British Interlingua Society.