Mathematics and Engineering
- Contact (mathematics), an equivalence relation
- Contact mechanics, the study of solid objects that deform when touching each other
- Contact process, a method of producing sulfuric acid
- Contact process (mathematics), a model of an interacting particle system
- Electrical contact
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