tactile

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Auditory learners are often non-tactile, and they therefore have difficulties taking notes.

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  1. adjective Perceptible to the sense of touch; tangible.
  2. adjective Characterized by or conveying an illusion of tangibility: "Heaney must thus continue to be a poet rich in tactile language” (Helen Vendler).
  3. adjective Used for feeling: a tactile organ.
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  • These would have computers able to give instruction in the use of visual, tactile, and acoustic codes. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • They delineate four categories of function along this sensorimotor continuum -- tactile sensing, active haptic sensing, prehension, and non-prehensile skilled movements -- that they use as a framework for analyzing and synthesizing the results from a broad range of studies that have contributed to our understanding of how the normal human hand functions. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Beautifully crafted, tactile, and expressive, the ICE USB drive is available on request only. —  Born Rich
  • The square navigation toggle and central OK button are spacious and tactile, as are the other navigation controls that surround it. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
  • Rubber dome, scissor switch, buckling spring, tactile, non-tactile, clicky -- you name the type of keyboard and I probably have one, or had one at some point. —  HotHardware.com News Rss Feed
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  1. From Latin tāctilis, from tāctus, past participle of tangere, to touch; see tact.

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  1. from French tactile = Spanish Portuguese tactil, from Latin tactilis, that may be touched, tangible, from tangere, past participle tactus, touch: see tact, tangent.
 

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