Adjective
Involving or pertaining to direct physical contact.
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Contactive memory, the recollection of the surfaces or forms which we have palped or handled .
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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)
Implying direct or physical contact.
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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".
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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.'
Serving to initiate contact; introductory.
Usage- of a speech act
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Contactive language resembles ritual language in its formulistic character ( " How are you," "What's new?" etc. ) but differs in its tone and purpose.
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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.
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Similarly, overviews of the evening's program or of the program for the following day should be understood as part of the contactive dimension.
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.
Usage- of sound
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Articulate sounds, when made pulsative, are heard aloud; when made merely contactive, without vibration of the windpipe, they produce a whisper.
Contiguous but not coordinated
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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.