contactive

形容词 adj.

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Involving or pertaining to direct physical contact.
    — Contactive memory, the recollection of the surfaces or forms which we have palped or handled .
  2. Implying direct or physical contact.
    — Thus the proposed definition explains why the suffixes -aa and -vaa sometimes fail to signal the contrast between contactive and non-contactive causation.
  3. Serving to initiate contact; introductory.
    — Contactive language resembles ritual language in its formulistic character ( " How are you," "What's new?" etc. ) but differs in its tone and purpose.
  4. Produced by the contact of air with an object (such as the sound produced by blowing over the lip of a bottle), as opposed to being produced by vibrations on the part of an object.
    — Articulate sounds, when made pulsative, are heard aloud; when made merely contactive, without vibration of the windpipe, they produce a whisper.
  5. Contiguous but not coordinated
    — In a complex distribution, if both of the contactive units are chains, there can be a reduction in the total of inferences only if one of the chains is in a simple distribution with a third chain and the interval is unoccupied.

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衍生词
contactiveness
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