rare, techn. [f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To bring into or place in contact.
1834. Eden, in Fraser’s Mag. XI. 644. The spark and the gunpowder contacted, and acting together, produce the explosion.
2. intr. To come into, or be in, contact.
1876. J. Rose, Pract. Machinist, 297. So that each side of the drift will have contacted with each side of the hole.
1883. H. Greer, Dict. Electr., 21. To prevent contact with two or more plates at the same time, their contacting portions are so arranged that no two consecutive plates are in the same vertical line.
