tactile

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adjective

1. Discernible by touch: palpable, tangible, touchable. See touch/not touch.
2. Of, relating to, or arising from the sense of touch: tactual. See touch/not touch.

Pertaining to the sense of touch.

IN BRIEF: Perceptible by touch.

The traveler who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto … may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it. — E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist.

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capable of exciting the sense of touch; relating to the sens of touch (as a sense organ).

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Pertaining to touch.

• t. hair — hairs sensitive to touch. See also hair (1).
• t. hair organ — a group of vibrissae, such as the carpal organ of cats, made up of four vibrissae on the medial surface of the forelegs, sensitive to vibrations.
• t. percussion — a combination of touch and tap as in ballottement. The objective is to delineate the boundaries of a fetus or organ by a tap or thrust and allow the repelled organ to bounce back onto the fingers.
• t. placing reaction, t. reflex — see placing reflex.
• t. receptors — located in the skin most are connected to very fast, myelinated nerve fibers.

adj

Pertaining to the sense of touch.

See words rhyming with "tactility."

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - som man kan tage og føle på

Nederlands (Dutch)
voelbaar

Français (French)
adj. - tactile

Deutsch (German)
adj. - Tast-, tastbar

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (φυσιολ.) απτικός

Italiano (Italian)
tattile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - tátil, palpável, tangível

Русский (Russian)
Осязательный, тактильный, ощущаемый, воплощающийся в живых образах

Español (Spanish)
adj. - táctil

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - känsel-, taktil, förnimbar med känseln

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
触觉的, 能触知的, 有触觉的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 觸覺的, 能觸知的, 有觸覺的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 촉각이 있는, 감촉이 있는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 触覚の, 触知できる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) ملموس, لم- لمسي‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮מוחשי, מישושי, של חוש המישוש, מובחן ע"י מגע‬

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