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haptical

haptical is the alternative form of haptic.

Meaning of haptic

Adjective

haptic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the sense of touch.
    • So there may be sciences of touch, taste, and smell; which will be Haptic, Geustic and Osphrantic.1860, Isaac Barrow, “[Lectiones Mathematicæ] Lect. II. [Of the Parts of Mathematics.]”, in W[illiam] Whewell, editor, The Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow, D.D. Master of Trinity College...
    Synonyms:
    tactile
  2. Of or relating to haptics (“the study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch”).
    • [T]he new standard should encompass other media, such as video, audio (both captured and synthetic), and in principle be extensible to new modalities such as haptic output and speech or gestural input, which have become increasingly integrated within graphics applications; […]1999, David J. Duke, Ivan Herman, M. Scott Marshall, “Preface”, in PREMO: A Framework for Multimedia Middleware: Specification, Rationale, and Java Binding (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 1591)...

Questions about haptical

What is haptical the alternative form of?
Haptical is the alternative form of haptic.

Words near haptical in the dictionary

  1. hapterons
  2. hapters
  3. haptic
  4. haptic interface
  5. haptic interfaces
  6. haptical
  7. hapticality
  8. haptically
  9. hapticities
  10. hapticity
  11. hapticospatial

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