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  • 2010: The Year We Make Contact (abbreviated on-screen as simply 2010) is a 1984 American science fiction film written, produced, shot and directed by Peter...
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  • lens placed on the eye Contact sport, a sport in which players make contact with other players or objects Contact juggling Contact mechanics, the study...
    6 KB (624 words) - 20:43, 23 January 2024
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    opportunity to make contact with each other and the laws of the game may expressly forbid contact. In contact sports some forms of contact are encouraged...
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    electrical contact forms found in relays and switches. The following contact forms are particularly common: Form A contacts ("make contacts") are normally...
    18 KB (1,819 words) - 04:09, 2 March 2024
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    to this unorthodox contact printing method. In contact sheet photography, the traditional contact sheet is used as a way to make pictures consisting...
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    condensation, etc.) or perspiration. This can make them preferable for sports and other outdoor activities. Contact lens wearers can also wear sunglasses, goggles...
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    do not need to make contact. Gravitational forces, electrical forces and magnetic forces are body forces and can exist without contact occurring. The...
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  • scientist who finds evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact. It also stars Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, Tom Skerritt, William...
    67 KB (6,945 words) - 20:01, 11 May 2024
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    In baseball, a contact hitter is a hitter who does not strike out often. Thus, they are usually able to use their bat to make contact with the ball (hence...
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    complex society that is able to travel to new geographic regions to make contact with those more isolated, less technologically complex societies. However...
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    missionary, 26-year-old John Chau, was killed after he illegally attempted to make contact with the islanders three separate times and paid local fishermen to transport...
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  • the central character expresses a longing to make a romantic connection. All three stories concern "contact", or its lack. Part One – "Swinging" "Swinging"...
    19 KB (1,550 words) - 10:48, 20 October 2023
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    the foot, such that in digitigrade or unguligrade species, it does not make contact with the ground when the animal is standing. The name refers to the dewclaw's...
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    with Conan O'Brien in December 2006. Matt Mays' project When the Angels Make Contact, released on November 7, 2006, is a soundtrack to Mays' unfinished film...
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  • Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically...
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    Switch (redirect from Contact bounce)
    called contacts, connected to an external circuit, that touch to complete (make) the circuit, and separate to open (break) the circuit. The contact material...
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    Relay (redirect from Solid-state contactor)
    of operating contact terminals. The switch may have any number of contacts in multiple contact forms, such as make contacts, break contacts, or combinations...
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    A contactor is an electrically controlled switch used for switching an electrical power circuit. A contactor is typically controlled by a circuit which...
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  • of astronaut Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea), in the film 2010: The Year We Make Contact. She also played the role of Mrs. Howard in the 2000 film The Patriot...
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  • A contact fuze, impact fuze, percussion fuze or direct-action (D.A.) fuze (UK) is the fuze that is placed in the nose of a bomb or shell so that it will...
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