touching

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It has been known for a long time that one can arrange 7 cylinders to be mutually touching.

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Quick take

the event of something coming in contact with the body; "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of touching gathered in one view.

noun

the event of something coming in contact with the body; "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air"

noun

the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights"

adjective

arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for touching.

noun

the event of something coming in contact with the body; "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air"

noun

the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights"

adjective

arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching"

Example sentences

It has been known for a long time that one can arrange 7 cylinders to be mutually touching.

There are many emotions connected to them, which makes you recoil from touching them.

No end users even touching the system till it's time for mission critical use?

Imagine someone touching those 2 bits in a "large codebase".

Maybe things have improved since then, but I left that experience so scarred that I'm never touching their dev tools again.

How many coins can you arrange to be mutually touching?Consider that a puzzle.

This was a touching and accepting note written by a skilled hand - and he is not blathering on about the next life.

"A feature called 'thumbkissing' shows your partners thumbprints whenever theyre touching the screen, and both phones will vibrate if your thumbs are on the same place.

The only music capable of moving and touching us is that which flows from the depths of a composers soul when he is stirred by inspiration.

They began touching them immediately, kept great body language and eye contact, and were shameless in their physicality.

Better eulogies will follow, to be sure, but in the mean time, much of what can be said about him is captured in a touching talk he gave called "How to Get a Job Like Mine" [1].

It's believed impossible to arrange eight identical infinitely long cylinders to be mutually touching.

I used it for so long and during such a formative period of my overall programming career that I can read/write C code with virtually no spin-up time even though I find myself touching C code very rarely.

The operating system is /not/ doing something hilariously insane here, throwing out all computation on the device because someone is accidentally touching it.

What I think is especially touching about this is how he gently deconstructs his success, demystifying his own legend by pulling back the curtain on what would have otherwise appeared to be a string of miraculous accomplishments.