tactile

Borrowed from Middle French tactile, from Latin tactilis (“that may be touched, tangible”), from tangere (“to touch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæktaɪl/, /ˈtæktəl/

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• Rhymes: -æktəl

tactile (comparative more tactile, superlative most tactile)

1. Tangible; perceptible to the sense of touch.
2. Used for feeling.
3. Of or relating to the sense of touch.
   • 1892, William James, Psychology (Briefer Course)

     The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is greatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm.

• haptic
• palpable
• touchable

• “tactile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tactile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “tactile”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• lattice, talcite

Borrowed from Latin tāctilis.

• IPA^(key): /tak.til/

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tactile (plural tactiles)

1. tactile
2. haptic

• écran tactile
• pavé tactile
• tactilement

• “tactile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

tāctile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of tāctilis