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Haptic

//ˈhæptɪk// adj

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Adjective

1
Of or relating to the sense of touch. not-comparable
"So there may be sciences of touch, taste, and smell; which will be Haptic, Geustic and Osphrantic."
2
Of or relating to haptics (“the study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch”). not-comparable
"[T]he new standard should encompass other media, such as video, audio (both captured and synthetic), and in principle be extensible to new modalities such as haptic output and speech or gestural input, which have become increasingly integrated within graphics applications; […]"

Adjective

1
of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἁπτικός (haptikós, “able to come in contact with”), from ἅπτω (háptō, “to touch”) + -ικός (-ikós, suffix forming adjectives from nouns).

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