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Synonyms for tactile
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : tak-til, -tahyl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæk tɪl, -taɪl |
Définition of tactile
Origin :- 1610s, "perceptible to touch," from French tactile, from Latin tactilis "tangible, that may be touched," from tactus, past participle of tangere "to touch" (see tangent). Meaning "of or pertaining to touch" is attested from 1650s.
- adj touchable
- Tactile: used for touching; an organ that has the sense of touch.
- Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith
- There is, I am told, tactile memory as well as visual and aural memory.
- Extract from : « Story of My Life » by Helen Keller
- It was the tactile, not the visual sensations that upset him.
- Extract from : « The Lani People » by J. F. Bone
- Page 54: each of the tactile organ probably should be organs.
- Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May, 1900 » by Various
- Sometimes they are transformed into feelers or tactile organs.
- Extract from : « A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) » by David Starr Jordan
- The skin of the whole body is provided with tactile nerve-endings.
- Extract from : « Elementary Zoology, Second Edition » by Vernon L. Kellogg
- The tactile effect of them is astounding; they are not to be read, but experienced.
- Extract from : « Fir-Flower Tablets » by Various
- See also, Acoustic phenomena, and Materializations (tactile).
- Extract from : « Mysterious Psychic Forces » by Camille Flammarion
- Apparitions may be in tactile form of men or animals, or monsters.
- Extract from : « Cock Lane and Common-Sense » by Andrew Lang
- To this inadequacy of the tactile imagination may be added a sort of transferability of certain touch sensations.
- Extract from : « Criminal Psychology » by Hans Gross
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