Definition of contact:

part of speech: noun

The touching or close union of bodies; touch.

Usage examples:

• But the important thing in their stay in Paris was that they came into contact with men of letters. Jethro Bithell in "Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck".

• Mr. Poe, can you contact your brother at this moment? Gordon Randall Garrett in "The Foreign Hand Tie".

• Our condition in this world is such that no person can avoid coming in contact with sin, or can escape entirely the results of sin in the world. Marcus Dods in "The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I".

• She had formed a plan; she wished of all things to come into contact with the real life of the people; she wanted Tommy and Betty to help her. Rose Macaulay in "The Furnace".