Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tactile.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Communicating or imparting the sense of touch; giving rise to the feeling of contact or impingement.
- Arising from or due to touch; impressed or communicated by contact or impingement; relating to or originating in touch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, or relating to the
sense oftouch ;tactile .
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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In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body; then, through impressions from without and their corresponding adjustments, special portions of the surface become more responsive to stimuli than others.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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'tactual' time than in either 'auditory' or 'optical' time.
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As for me, I had to be a mixture of visual and tactual-kinesthetic styles.
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As for me, I had to be a mixture of visual and tactual-kinesthetic styles.
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Again, I was sure of his learning style: a tactual-kinesthetic learner, I proclaimed.
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Again, I was sure of his learning style: a tactual-kinesthetic learner, I proclaimed.
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For him, the initial position to take was that if there are different methods of measurement we have different concepts, as he said about “tactual” and
Operationalism Chang, Hasok 2009
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Training Camp "boot camps" help students grasp complex technical concepts more easily by identifying and catering to individual student learning styles through a mixed visual, auditory and kinesthetic-tactual delivery system.
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The clusters include not only visual but also tactual and other forms of sensation.
John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007
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Some philosophers defended the position that the visual and tactual notions of a globe differ from one another, and can only be related by either experience or reason
Molyneux's Problem Degenaar, Marjolein 2005
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