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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 of touch; 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

[Latin tāctus, touch; see tact + –al.]

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