Corrective glass or plastic lens or to reach out to someone

noun

1. Union or junction of surfaces

   "Cooling begins when the lava makes contact with the air."

2. The apparent touching or mutual tangency of the limbs of two celestial bodies or of the disk of one body with the shadow of another during an eclipse, transit, or occultation
3. Association, relationship

   "students and teachers in daily contact"

4. Connection, communication

   "I lost contact with her years ago."

5. An establishing of communication with someone or an observing or receiving of a significant signal from a person or object

   "radar contact with Mars"

6. A person serving as a go-between, messenger, connection, or source of special information

   "business contacts"

7. Contact lens

   "She wears contacts more often than glasses."

verb

1. To make contact

   "the point at which the two surfaces contact"

2. To bring into contact
3. To enter or be in contact with join

   "The spark contacted the gunpowder."

4. To get in communication with

   "Contact your local dealer."

adjective

1. Maintaining, involving, or activated or caused by contact

   "contact poisons"

noun

1. A binary star system in which the two stars are close enough together for material to pass between them

noun

1. A hitter in baseball who seldom strikes out

noun

1. Cessation of cellular movement, growth, and division upon contact with other cells

noun

1. Pidgin

noun

1. A thin lens designed to fit over the cornea and usually worn to correct defects in vision

noun

1. A photographic print made with the negative in contact with the sensitized paper, plate, or film

verb

1. To identify, notify, and monitor individuals who may have had close contact with a person having a confirmed or probable case of infectious disease to engage in the practice of contact tracing

   "How well a college contact traces, places infected students in isolation, disseminates a steady stream of messaging to students about following safety practices and punishes offenders all have an impact on how much the virus spreads, [Gonzalo] Bearman said."

2. To identify and notify (someone) through contact tracing

   "“Our school has done the best they can to keep us all as safe as possible, but I just happened to be in an unfortunate situation and ended being contact traced. I am choosing to focus on all of the positive experiences I had this season and the great memories I made with my team.”"