Meaning of contactive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Involving or pertaining to direct physical contact.
2. Implying direct or physical contact.
3. Serving to initiate contact; introductory.
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.
5. Contiguous but not coordinated

Examples

“Contactive memory, the recollection of the surfaces or forms which we have⟳ palped or handled .”

“We may imagine⟳, that traces of organic substances, mixed with the hydrocyanic acid, gradually decompose it by a contactive process⟳; and that sulphuric acid hinders the process⟳ by charring these matters.”

“Mead's (14) "recommendations" for the control⟳ of the spread⟳ of the plague in England embodied all the essential principles of restriction of contactive diseases by measures directed to the control⟳ of persons and their immediate contactive environments in use⟳ at the present⟳ day.”

“To exclude⟳ secondary plasticity in the hardening layer while its pressing with internal one and during following loadings, the autofretting is realized in cyclic regime "loading-absolute unloading" and is finished at the stabilization of contactive stresses level on the mating surfaces (as a rule⟳ after 4 - 5 "loading-unloading" cycles)”

“Thus the proposed definition explains why the suffixes -aa and -vaa sometimes fail⟳ to signal the contrast between contactive and non-contactive causation.”

“This causation may be principally of two kinds, "distant" and "contactive".”

“More generally, semantically absolutive normally marks an entity as participating as a whole in the situation identified by the verb, though not necessarily contactive, involving location.”

“In series, re and direct⟳ object òè 'leg' join⟳ gbe to express⟳ contactive 'kick⟳.'”

“Contactive language resembles ritual language in its formulistic character ( " How are you," "What's new?" etc. ) but differs in its tone and purpose.”

“Slightly more complex than impulsive patterns are contactive patterns. Contactive patterns are most frequently used when we are attempting to initiate "contact⟳" or gain⟳ the attention of another person.”

“It is argued that the feature [contactive] differentiates invitations from other text types.”

“Similarly, overviews of the evening's program⟳ or of the program⟳ for the following day should be understood as part of the contactive dimension.”

“Articulate sounds, when made pulsative, are heard aloud; when made merely contactive, without vibration of the windpipe, they produce⟳ a whisper⟳.”

“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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