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Incidental Contact: Minor, usually inadvertent contact, that is usually ignored by officials.

Contact Printer: Apparatus used for making contact prints. Equipment ranges from a contact printing frame to more sophisticated boxes with safe lighting.

Contact Print: Negative sized photograph made by exposing printing paper in direct contact with the negative.

Contact Screen: Type of half-tone screen in which the dots consist of slightly unsharp halos. Used to make half-tone images.

Drawing Contact: An offensive move intended to produce a foul call on the defensive player. A typical strategy is to drive into a defensive player whose feet are not stationary. When the two players make bod . . . View Full Definition

Incidental Music: Music written to accompany dramatic works.

Coincidental Penalties: When penalties are given out to opposing players at the same time. The result is that neither team will be playing shorthanded, because both teams will lose a player.

Contact Patch: The Contact Patch (CP) is the area on the ground where your motorcycle tire actually touches the road surface. This area can be very small and highlights the fact that there isn't much actua . . . View Full Definition

Contact Breaker: The spring switch in the low-tension ignition circuit that controls the timing of the spark in the high-tension circuit. Operated by a cam, contact breakers are sometimes called points.

Contact: Any echo detected on the radarscope not evaluated as clutter or as a false echo.