contactive

adjective5

1. •
   Involving or pertaining to direct physical contact.

   • Contactive memory, the recollection of the surfaces or forms which we have palped or handled . — 1845
2. •
   Implying direct or physical contact.

   • Thus the proposed definition explains why the suffixes -aa and -vaa sometimes fail to signal the contrast between contactive and non-contactive causation. — 1982
3. •
   Serving to initiate contact; introductory.

   • Contactive language resembles ritual language in its formulistic character ( " How are you," "What's new?" etc. ) but differs in its tone and purpose. — 1972
4. •
   Produced by the contact of air with an object (such as the sound produced by blowing over the lip of a bottle), as opposed to being produced by vibrations on the part of an object.

   • Articulate sounds, when made pulsative, are heard aloud; when made merely contactive, without vibration of the windpipe, they produce a whisper. — 1843
5. •
   Contiguous but not coordinated