Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to, involving, or perceptible to the sense of touch.
- adjective Characterized by or conveying an illusion of tangibility.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In art criticism, noting the quality of solidity in nature, which is perfectly apprehended only by the sense of touch, and which is better represented by certain painters than by others. ‘Tactile’ in this sense is a translation of the German taktisch, used by Riegl in 1893.
- Of or pertaining to the sense of touch.
- Adapted or used for feeling or touching; tactual: as, the whiskers of the cat are tactile organs; a mouse's ear or a bat's wing is a highly tactile surface.
- Effected by or consisting in the action of touching; produced or caused by physical contact.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched
- adjective sense (Physiol.), the sense of touch, or pressure sense. See
Touch .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Tangible ;perceptible to thesense oftouch . - adjective Used for
feeling . - adjective Of, or relating to the sense of touch.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective producing a sensation of touch
- adjective of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Are you completely lacking in tactile senses as a result of nothing being able to penetrate your nerves of steel?
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The prints - like their subjects - are analog, tactile, which is to say different from a collection of bits and bytes.
Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Photography: The Long and Winding Road Ethan Russell 2011
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The prints - like their subjects - are analog, tactile, which is to say different from a collection of bits and bytes.
Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Photography: The Long and Winding Road Ethan Russell 2011
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If you want the ultimate in tactile, it's being out on the road, where people can see it, hear it, talk to it, and those things.
Mike Ragogna: Riot Fests & Bloody Wars: Conversations with Less Than Jake and Christopher King, Plus KT Tunstall's Video Exclusive Pt. 2 Mike Ragogna 2010
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If you want the ultimate in tactile, it's being out on the road, where people can see it, hear it, talk to it, and those things.
Mike Ragogna: Riot Fests & Bloody Wars : Conversations with Less Than Jake and Christopher King, Plus KT Tunstall's Video Exclusive Pt. 2 Mike Ragogna 2010
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The prints - like their subjects - are analog, tactile, which is to say different from a collection of bits and bytes.
Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Photography: The Long and Winding Road Ethan Russell 2011
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The prints - like their subjects - are analog, tactile, which is to say different from a collection of bits and bytes.
Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Photography: The Long and Winding Road Ethan Russell 2011
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The prints - like their subjects - are analog, tactile, which is to say different from a collection of bits and bytes.
Ethan Russell: Music, Words and Photography: The Long and Winding Road Ethan Russell 2011
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If you want the ultimate in tactile, it's being out on the road, where people can see it, hear it, talk to it, and those things.
Mike Ragogna: Riot Fests & Bloody Wars : Conversations with Less Than Jake and Christopher King, Plus KT Tunstall's Video Exclusive Pt. 2 Mike Ragogna 2010
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Much of it is in tactile/visual diagrams, with the tactile part dominant.
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