contacttesting
nounUK /ˈkɒntæktˌtɛstɪŋ/
US /ˈkɑːntæktˌtɛstɪŋ/
Contact testing is when you check if two things touch or work together.
The engineers did contact testing on the new toy to make sure its buttons worked.
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2. In medicine, contact testing means checking whether a person who was near a sick person also gets sick.
After the flu outbreak, the clinic began contact testing for everyone in the family.
3. In electronics, contact testing means making sure metal parts touch properly so electricity can flow.
The repair shop used contact testing to find the loose wire in the lamp.
4. In materials science, contact testing means seeing how two surfaces behave when they press together.
The lab ran contact testing on the new glue to see how strongly it stuck.