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Touch
Touch (tactile sense, taction): the sensation of physical contact with objects, detected by mechanoreceptors in skin and mucous membranes; includes discriminative and affective (C-tactile) systems, haptics, and the somatosensory homunculus.
Touch (2024 film)
Touch (Icelandic: Snerting) is Baltasar Kormákur's 2024 romantic drama, adapted from Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson's novel, in which elderly Icelander Kristófer (Egill Ólafsson) searches pandemic-era London and Japan for Miko, his lost 1969 love; Nordic Council Film Prize nominee and Iceland's 97th Oscars entry.
Touch (Katseye song)
"Touch" is a July 26, 2024 single by Katseye (캣츠아이), second single and title track of SIS (Soft Is Strong); a 2:09 TikTok-viral dance-pop song, later certified Gold in France.
Touch and Go Records
Touch and Go Records is an independent record label in Chicago, founded in 1981 and run by Corey Rusk, known for Big Black, the Jesus Lizard, and Slint.
Touch and step voltage
Touch and step voltage are the shock quantities used to judge whether a grounding system protects people during an earth fault, with limits set by IEEE Std 80 and IEC 60479-1.
Touch Bionics
Touch Bionics was a Scottish prosthetics company founded by David Gow as an NHS spin-out; its i-limb hand, launched in 2007, had five independently powered fingers.
Touch Chesi Chudu (టచ్ చేసి చూడు)
Touch Chesi Chudu (టచ్ చేసి చూడు) is a 2018 Telugu action film, Vikram Sirikonda's directorial debut starring Ravi Teja as Karthikeya, with Raashi Khanna and Seerat Kapoor; released 2 February 2018, music by JAM8, poorly received by critics.
Touch Events
Touch Events are Web APIs, standardized by the W3C, that let web applications interpret finger or stylus activity on touch screens, supporting multi-touch gestures such as pinch, zoom, and swipes.
Touch ID
Touch ID is Apple's fingerprint-sensing authentication system, introduced in 2013 with the iPhone 5s, used to unlock iPhone, iPad, and Mac and approve Apple Pay purchases.
Touch Me (2025 film)
Touch Me (2025) is Addison Heimann's American horror-comedy sci-fi feature about codependent friends addicted to an alien's touch; Sundance Midnight premiere, Overlook Grand Jury Prize winner.
Touch Me Not
Touch Me Not (టచ్ మీ నాట్) is a 2025 Telugu-language mystery thriller web series on JioHotstar, a remake of the Korean drama He Is Psychometric, directed by Ramana Teja, starring Navdeep and Dheekshith Shetty in a six-episode psychometry crime story.
Touch of Death
Touch of Death, or Dim Mak (点脉; Mandarin diǎnxué, 点穴), is a Chinese martial arts concept of striking vital points to kill, paralyze, or cause delayed death; a legend popularized by Count Dante, with no scientific support for fatal touches.
Touch of Death (crossover event)
Touch of Death: two-part 2012 CBS crossover between Hawaii Five-0 ("Pa Make Loa") and NCIS: Los Angeles ("Touch of Death"), April 30–May 1, 2012, hunting virus suspect Dracul Comescu from Hawaii to Los Angeles.
Touch of Evil
Touch of Evil (1958) is Orson Welles's film noir with Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, and Marlene Dietrich, shot in Venice, California, released in a studio cut, and restored in 1998 by Walter Murch from Welles's 58-page December 1957 memo to Universal.
Touch of the Light (逆光飞翔)
Touch of the Light (逆光飞翔, also 逆光飛翔) is a 2012 Taiwanese drama by Chang Jung-chi based on blind pianist Huang Yu-siang, who plays himself; it won Golden Horse Best New Director and was Taiwan's 85th Academy Awards entry.
Touch sensing
Touch sensing in robotics is the detection of physical contact between a robot and its environment, used industrially to locate weld seams and in research to give robots a sense of touch.
Touch starvation
Touch starvation (skin hunger, touch hunger) is the unmet desire for non-sexual physical contact, measured as longing for touch. Affects 72-86% of samples; touch interventions reduce cortisol, pain, depression, anxiety.
Touch Surgery
Touch Surgery is a free mobile app for rehearsing the step-by-step decisions of operations, created by NHS surgeons in London in 2012 and acquired by Medtronic in 2020.
Touch typing
Touch typing, also called blind typing, is typing without looking at the keyboard, with each finger assigned its own keys and speed built through muscle memory.
Touch Your Heart
Touch Your Heart (진심이 닿다, Jinsimi Dadda) is a 2019 tvN Korean romantic comedy, 16 episodes, starring Lee Dong-wook and Yoo In-na as a lawyer and an actress working undercover as his secretary, based on a Yegeo web novel.
Touch-and-go landing
A touch-and-go landing, also known as circuits and bumps, is a flight training maneuver in which an aircraft touches down and immediately takes off again without stopping, letting pilots practice landings.
Touchback
Touchback: American football ruling when the ball dies on or behind a team's own goal line; possession goes to the defending team, NFL kickoffs now spotted at the 35 (2025), scrimmage kicks at the 20, college at the 25.
TouchDesigner
TouchDesigner is a node-based visual programming application developed by Derivative in Toronto, first released in 2002, for real-time interactive 2D and 3D graphics, audiovisual systems, and media installations.
Touchdown
Touchdown: the six-point primary scoring play in American football, scored by carrying or catching the ball in the opponent's end zone; followed by a Try worth one or two points. Named for the early game's literal ball-down act; fixed at six points in 1912.
Touche Amore
Touché Amoré is an American post-hardcore band formed in Los Angeles in 2007 and fronted by Jeremy Bolm, known for emotionally raw screamo on albums like Stage Four (2016).
Touched by an Angel
Touched by an Angel (also El toque de un ángel) is a CBS American drama series (1994–2003, 9 seasons, 211 episodes) starring Roma Downey, Della Reese, John Dye, and Valerie Bertinelli as angels helping people in crisis, led by executive producer Martha Williamson.
Touchez pas au grisbi
Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) is Jacques Becker's French gangster film starring Jean Gabin as aging robber Max le Menteur, adapted from Albert Simonin's novel; it revived Gabin's career, launched Lino Ventura, and won Venice's Best Actor Award.
Touching the Void (film)
Touching the Void (2003) is a Kevin Macdonald docudrama, based on Joe Simpson's book, recounting Simpson and Simon Yates's disastrous 1985 Siula Grande descent; it won the 2004 BAFTA for Best British Film.
Touchpad
A touchpad, also called a trackpad, is a flat finger-operated pointing device built into laptops, using capacitive sensing to turn finger movement into cursor motion, clicks, scrolling, and multi-finger gestures.
Touchscreen
A touchscreen, or touch-sensitive screen, is an input device built into a display that registers a finger or stylus, now standard on smartphones and tablets and widely used in kiosks, vehicles, and medical equipment.