Definition of Taction

1. n. The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.

Definition of Taction

1. Noun. The act of touching; touch; contact. ¹

2. Noun. The sense of touch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Taction

1. the act of touching [n -S]

Medical Definition of Taction

1. 1. The sense of touch. 2. The act of touching. Origin: L. Tactio, fr. Tango, pp. Tactus, to touch (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Taction

tactile disk
tactile elevations
tactile fremitus
tactile hair
tactile hallucination
tactile hyperesthesia
tactile image
tactile meniscus
tactile organ
tactile property
tactile sensation
tactile sense
tactilely
tactilities
tactility
taction (current term)
tactions
tactism
tactisms
tactless
tactlessly
tactlessness
tactlessnesses
tactometer
tactometers
tactor
tacts
tactual
tactual exploration
tactual sensation

Literary usage of Taction

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elementary Co-ordinate Geometry for Collegiate Use and Private Study by William Benjamin Smith (1886)
"But the doctrines of poles and polars, power-centres and power-lines, centres and axes of similitude, enable us to solve the general taction-Problem by use ..."

2. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1890)
"It is clear that, for an exterior point, the taction points are real and the ... A circle having С for its centre and passing through the taction points (in ..."

3. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1890)
"It is clear that, for an exterior point, the taction points are real and the ... A circle having G for its centre and passing through the taction points (in ..."

4. Dictionnaire anglais-franca̧is: et français-anglais by Abel Boyer, Nicholas Salmon, Louis Francoi̧s Fain (1821)
"taction de voriger. Treasonably, adv. en traître, eo trahison. Traverse [ traverse ], s. ( a piece- of fortification ) traverse . /. ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1856)
"How we would refer without taction is a vain question, for we have taction, and know of space. In handbooks of physiology, even in monographs, ..."

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