Contact

Contact may refer to:

Social interaction

• Contact (social), a person who can offer help in achieving goals
• Contact (law), a concept related to visitation rights
• Contact (amateur radio)
• First contact (anthropology), an initial meeting of two cultures
• Language contact, the interaction of two or more languages
• Sparśa, a concept in Buddhism

Mathematics, engineering and science

• Contact (mathematics), an equivalence relation
• Contact mechanics, the study of solid objects that deform when touching each other
• Contact process, a method of producing sulfuric acid
• Contact process (mathematics), a model of an interacting particle system
• Electrical contacts
• Contact print, a kind of photographic image
• Contacts, informal plural for Contact lens, a lens placed on the eye
• Contact (geology), a common geological feature

Games and sport

• Contact (video game), a 2006 role-playing video game
• Contact (tile game)
• Contact sport, a sport in which players make contact with other players or objects
• Contact juggling

Books

• Contact (novel), a novel by Carl Sagan
• Contact (magazine), an American literary "little magazine"
• Contact (The Culture), a fictional organization in the works of Iain M. Banks

Companies

• Contact Air, an airline
• Contact Conference, an annual scientific conference
• Contact Energy, an energy company
• Contact Theatre, multi-disciplinary arts venue in Manchester, England

Film and television

Film

• Contact (1978 film) (Контакт), Soviet animated short film
• Contact (1992 film), short film by Jonathan Darby, with Brad Pitt
• Contact (1997 American film), an American science fiction drama film adapted from the Carl Sagan novel
• Contact (2009 film), an Australian documentary film
• Contact, a 2002 short film by Kieran Galvin

Television

• "Contact", a 1995 episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
• "Contact" (Saving Hope), a 2012 episode of Saving Hope

Music

Musicals

• Contact (musical), a 1999 dance play

Albums

• Contact (Minori Chihara album)
• Contact (Fantastic Plastic Machine album)
• Contact (Indo G album)
• Contact (Mad Heads album)
• Contact (Freda Payne album)
• Contact (Platinum Blonde album), 1987
• Contact (Pointer Sisters album), 1985
• Contact (Silver Apples album)
• Contact (Thirteen Senses album), or the title song
• Contact (Noisettes album), 2012
• Contact (ATB album), 2014
• Contact (Milk album), 2015
• Contact!, a 2001 album by Eiffel 65
• Contact, an album by The Benjamin Gate

Songs

• "Contact" (Daft Punk song), 2013
• "Contact" (Edwin Starr song), 1978
• "Contact", a song by Anthrax on the album We've Come for You All
• "Contact", a song by Brigitte Bardot
• "Contact", a single by Brooklyn Bounce
• "Contact", a song by Kyo on the album 300 Lésions
• "Contact a song by Phish on the album Junta
• "Contact", a song by The Police on the album Reggatta de Blanc
• "Contact", a song from the musical Rent

See also

• Contact, Nevada
• 3-2-1 Contact, an American science educational television show
• Contac, a medication brand
• Kontakt (disambiguation)
• Contactor, an electrically controlled switch used for switching a power circuit
• The Contact (disambiguation)