tactile
of, pertaining to, endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch.
perceptible to the touch; tangible.
Origin of tactile
1Other words from tactile
- tac·til·i·ty [tak-til-i-tee], /tækˈtɪl ɪ ti/, noun
- non·tac·tile, adjective
- non·tac·til·i·ty, noun
- un·tac·tile, adjective
Words Nearby tactile
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How to use tactile in a sentence
The resources are there if we want to learn that stuff but primarily when I was there it was more very tactile SEM.
Searching for Opportunity: How COOP Careers is Changing the Digital Marketing Hiring Landscape | Katie Jordan | December 10, 2020 | Search Engine LandThat’s part of the reason why history is built on preserving enduring visual and tactile artifacts, such as paintings, writings, architectural sites, or simply stones and bones.
What Did the Past Smell Like? - Issue 93: Forerunners | Ann-Sophie Barwich | December 9, 2020 | NautilusRemember that every ingredient you use will register some sort of effect on the trigeminal nerve, whether it is a tactile sensation, temperature-related, astringency, fattiness, pungency, numbness, a cooling sensation or the mild burn of alcohol.
There’s a science to food pairing, and you can learn it here | Peter Coucquyt, Bernard Lahousse, and Johan Langenbick | October 22, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIt was a wild ride, but as a book it was inevitably more static and less tactile than other approaches.
The researchers then did the same experiments, using tactile input only, with 15 subjects who had been blind since birth.
Could Peso-trash be a serious threat to the lively and tactile scene down the hill?
These tactile projects make them “feel they can start and finish something,” she said.
Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert, welcoming places.
How We Lost Bookshops Thanks to Amazon and Publishers | Tim Waterstone | July 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTPhysical books, which can only be seen and handled in physical bookshops, are lovely, tactile things.
How We Lost Bookshops Thanks to Amazon and Publishers | Tim Waterstone | July 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTtactile and open, she makes you feel both important and protective.
Special nerve endings, called the tactile corpuscles, are found there, each inclosed in a sheath or capsule of connective tissue.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterThe constant wash of animal reactions was missing, as was the vague tactile awareness of his PK.
Deathworld | Harry HarrisonAnd this time it was accompanied by what I can only describe as a vivid tactile hallucination.
The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories | Algernon BlackwoodTheir eyes, too, are less perfectly developed, and the tactile proboscis of their free-moving relatives is absent.
The Sea Shore | William S. FurneauxIt certainly possesses very elaborate tactile organs about the head.
British Dictionary definitions for tactile
/ (ˈtæktaɪl) /
of, relating to, affecting, or having a sense of touch: a tactile organ; tactile stimuli
rare capable of being touched; tangible
Origin of tactile
1Derived forms of tactile
- tactility (tækˈtɪlɪtɪ), noun
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Scientific definitions for tactile
[ tăk′təl, tăk′tīl′ ]
Used for or sensitive to touch.
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