Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of touching; contact.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of touching, or the state of being touched; touch; contact; palpation.
  • noun The tactual faculty; the sense of touch, or its exercise; perception of objects by feeling them.
  • noun In geometry, same as tangency.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of touching; touch; contact.
  • noun The sense of touch.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin tāctiō, tāctiōn-, from tāctus, past participle of tangere, to touch; see tact.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin tactio ("touching"), from perfect passive participle tactus ("sense of feeling"), from tangere ("to touch, feel") + action suffix -io; see tact.

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Examples

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  • Spinal Decompression is a non-surgical, taction based treatment outcome for herniated or bulging discs in the neck and low back.

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  • A suede upper is joined by a leather lacing system which gives the shoe an quality inspected taction.

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  • Yes, I can use select statement but I am able to display only the latest taction taken to the coldfusion page but not all the list of actions taken in a user session.

    ColdFusion Talk (CF-Talk) Mailing List RSS Feed 2009

  • Everyone learns in school about the five senses: vision (sight), audition (sound), olfaction (smell), taction (touch), and gustation (taste).

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  • I am familiar with a few English words employing Latin tact-in the sense of ` touch '-- tactile, taction, tactual-but the statement is completely wrong for English, in which tact means something entirely different from ` touch.'

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3 1986

  • I could not then conceive the meaning; it seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domestics, nor ever walk abroad or make visits without him.

    Gulliver's Travels 1896

  • It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domestics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him.

    Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World 1726

  • It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domestics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him.

    Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

  • It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domestics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him.

    Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift 1706

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