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aftertouches

aftertouches is the plural of aftertouch.

Meaning of aftertouch

Noun

aftertouch (countable and uncountable, plural aftertouches)

  1. (uncountable) Pressure sensitivity on an electronic synthesizer, allowing the musician to change the tone or sound of a note after it is struck.
  2. (rare) A touch (feature or characteristic) added finally or as an afterthought.
  3. A feature in football/soccer games allowing the player to swerve the ball immediately after kicking it.
    • KO2 ruins every other football game you'll ever play; I never got good at SWOS - the controls were all wrong. And the aftertouch was stupid. And the computer keepers were always hopeless on free kicks.1997, Mark Howson, “Kick Off 2: Best Amiga Game Of all time!”, in comp.sys.amiga.games (Usenet)

Questions about aftertouches

What is aftertouches the plural of?
Aftertouches is the plural of aftertouch.

Words near aftertouches in the dictionary

  1. afterthoughting
  2. afterthoughts
  3. aftertime
  4. aftertimes
  5. aftertouch
  6. aftertouches
  7. aftertreat
  8. aftertreated
  9. aftertreating
  10. aftertreatment
  11. aftertreatments

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aftertouches (page history and authors); aftertouch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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