Tactile
adjective
Relating to the sense of touch or the act of touching.
She had a tactile approach to learning, she liked to take the items into her hands
Often appears as...
- tactile experience
- tactile exploration
adjective
Designed to be perceived by touch.
The tactile buttons on the remote are easy to use even in the dark
Often appears as...
- tactile feedback
- tactile devices
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Relating to the sense of touch or the act of touching.
She had a tactile approach to learning, she liked to take the items into her hands
Often appears as...
- tactile experience
- tactile exploration
adjective
Designed to be perceived by touch.
The tactile buttons on the remote are easy to use even in the dark
Often appears as...
- tactile feedback
- tactile devices
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Interactive Learning
Consider 'tactile' for activities that involve physical touch as a way to learn or explore.
Children's museums often have tactile displays to help them learn by touching.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Richness
'Tactile' suggests an experience that is rich in sensory touch, appealing to our skin's sensitivity.
Walking barefoot on the grass is a tactile delight.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Interaction
Use 'tactile' when describing something that requires touch to operate or interact with.
The puzzle game featured tactile components for assembly.
Pro Tip 1/3Interactive Learning
Consider 'tactile' for activities that involve physical touch as a way to learn or explore.
Children's museums often have tactile displays to help them learn by touching.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Richness
'Tactile' suggests an experience that is rich in sensory touch, appealing to our skin's sensitivity.
Walking barefoot on the grass is a tactile delight.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Interaction
Use 'tactile' when describing something that requires touch to operate or interact with.
The puzzle game featured tactile components for assembly.
Pro Tip 1/3Interactive Learning
Consider 'tactile' for activities that involve physical touch as a way to learn or explore.
Children's museums often have tactile displays to help them learn by touching.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Richness
'Tactile' suggests an experience that is rich in sensory touch, appealing to our skin's sensitivity.
Walking barefoot on the grass is a tactile delight.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Interaction
Use 'tactile' when describing something that requires touch to operate or interact with.
The puzzle game featured tactile components for assembly.
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Video examples
Haptography: Digitizing...
And that's kind of surprising, because your sense of touch is really important. It's involved in every physical interaction you do every day, every manipulation task, anything you do in the world. So the sense of touch is actually pretty interesting. It has two main components. The first is tactile sensations,
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Safari Live - Day 162 PIPE...
easily identify a mum and vice versa so very important for that early stage for them to spend that time together and then mum is never too far away from the youngster and there's a little bit of playing happening now very tactile animals live where they love touching
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Ramona Pierson: An...
Everything is different when you're a sighted person, because you take that for granted. But when you're blind, you have the tactile memory for things. The biggest change for me was looking down at my hands and seeing that I'd lost 10 years of my life.
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The science of...
who rated the person as cold, stoic, and unaffectionate. If a potential mate has managed to pass all these tests, there's still one the infamous first kiss, a rich and complex exchange of tactile and chemical cues, such as the smell of one's breath,
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Why you don’t like the...
And talking about babies, when you were starting to develop in your mother's womb, the first sensation that you had coming from the outside world, at only three weeks old, when you were about the size of a shrimp, were through the tactile sensation
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An unexpected place of...
sighted person because you take that for granted but when you're blind you have you have the tactile memory for things the biggest change for me was looking down at my hands and seeing that I'd lost 10 years of my life I thought that
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The taste of time PIPE Barb...
volatile aromas of foods that we smell the tactile experience of food we feel and the taste which we detect in the surfaces of our mouth and taste is where a mommy fits in and it's hugely important because now we know if there
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Safari Live - Day 316 PIPE...
with a bit of grass while he waits well very very tactile hyenas they love touching they love cuddling love spending time with each other it's all about touching smelling and biting in the eye in a world and
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Reggie Watts disorients...
Not just any day, but it is a day. It will get here, there's no question. And the important thing to remember is that this simulation is a good one. It's believable, it's tactile.
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Neil on the Power of the...
the Internet is removing our hands from most things other than the keyboard and our thumbs as such so the tactile experience of life I think is suffering
Video examples
Haptography: Digitizing...
And that's kind of surprising, because your sense of touch is really important. It's involved in every physical interaction you do every day, every manipulation task, anything you do in the world. So the sense of touch is actually pretty interesting. It has two main components. The first is tactile sensations,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 162 PIPE...
easily identify a mum and vice versa so very important for that early stage for them to spend that time together and then mum is never too far away from the youngster and there's a little bit of playing happening now very tactile animals live where they love touching
Video examples
Ramona Pierson: An...
Everything is different when you're a sighted person, because you take that for granted. But when you're blind, you have the tactile memory for things. The biggest change for me was looking down at my hands and seeing that I'd lost 10 years of my life.
Video examples
The science of...
who rated the person as cold, stoic, and unaffectionate. If a potential mate has managed to pass all these tests, there's still one the infamous first kiss, a rich and complex exchange of tactile and chemical cues, such as the smell of one's breath,
Video examples
Why you don’t like the...
And talking about babies, when you were starting to develop in your mother's womb, the first sensation that you had coming from the outside world, at only three weeks old, when you were about the size of a shrimp, were through the tactile sensation
Video examples
An unexpected place of...
sighted person because you take that for granted but when you're blind you have you have the tactile memory for things the biggest change for me was looking down at my hands and seeing that I'd lost 10 years of my life I thought that
Video examples
The taste of time PIPE Barb...
volatile aromas of foods that we smell the tactile experience of food we feel and the taste which we detect in the surfaces of our mouth and taste is where a mommy fits in and it's hugely important because now we know if there
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 316 PIPE...
with a bit of grass while he waits well very very tactile hyenas they love touching they love cuddling love spending time with each other it's all about touching smelling and biting in the eye in a world and
Video examples
Reggie Watts disorients...
Not just any day, but it is a day. It will get here, there's no question. And the important thing to remember is that this simulation is a good one. It's believable, it's tactile.
Video examples
Neil on the Power of the...
the Internet is removing our hands from most things other than the keyboard and our thumbs as such so the tactile experience of life I think is suffering
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Quote examples
Chamath Palihapitiya
American Businessman
I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.
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Miranda Kerr
Australian Model
I'm quite tactile, so I like fabrics that feel good. I try to avoid fabrics that crease - especially with my son. When you have a child, that's important. A great pair of a jeans, a t-shirt and some loafers, that's what I always wear.
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Jim James
American Musician
Live music is incredible because you get to be with people, and you get to have this tactile, real-world experience, but at the end of the day, if your eyes are closed and you're getting swept away, it's like... I don't know.
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Billy Gibbons
American Musician
Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.
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Gbenga Akinnagbe
Nigerian Actor
I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.
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Ross Lovegrove
Welsh Designer
The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.
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Anson Williams
American Actor
Happy Days' is the type of show that represents the best we can be. It's something warm, something tactile when life was good and life was simple.
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Eva Chen
Taiwanese Businesswoman
Print is very important because I think there is nothing like the tactile sense of picking up a magazine.
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Chad Hurley
American Businessman
There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.
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Panos Cosmatos
Canadian Director
I want my films to be very tactile, visually and sonically.
Quote examples
Chamath Palihapitiya
American Businessman
I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen.
Quote examples
Miranda Kerr
Australian Model
I'm quite tactile, so I like fabrics that feel good. I try to avoid fabrics that crease - especially with my son. When you have a child, that's important. A great pair of a jeans, a t-shirt and some loafers, that's what I always wear.
Quote examples
Jim James
American Musician
Live music is incredible because you get to be with people, and you get to have this tactile, real-world experience, but at the end of the day, if your eyes are closed and you're getting swept away, it's like... I don't know.
Quote examples
Billy Gibbons
American Musician
Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.
Quote examples
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Nigerian Actor
I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.
Quote examples
Ross Lovegrove
Welsh Designer
The world we live in is not purely visual. For me it's totally poly-sensorial so the tactile, sensual aspect of living in the work that I do is brought to the fore.
Quote examples
Anson Williams
American Actor
Happy Days' is the type of show that represents the best we can be. It's something warm, something tactile when life was good and life was simple.
Quote examples
Eva Chen
Taiwanese Businesswoman
Print is very important because I think there is nothing like the tactile sense of picking up a magazine.
Quote examples
Chad Hurley
American Businessman
There's something very satisfying about creating a tactile product.
Quote examples
Panos Cosmatos
Canadian Director
I want my films to be very tactile, visually and sonically.
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