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tact
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin t?ctus. Sense “keen perception” developed in French tact.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tækt/
- Rhymes: -ækt
Noun
tact (countable and uncountable, plural tacts)
- The sense of touch; feeling. [from 1650s]
- 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
- Did you suppose that I could not make myself sensible to tact as well as sight?
- 1881, Joseph LeConte, Sight: An Exposition on the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision
- Now, sight is a very refined tact.
- 1829, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
- (music) The stroke in beating time.
- Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing. [from early 19th c.]
- Synonyms: sensitivity, consideration, diplomacy, tactfulness
- (slang) Clipping of tactic.
- 2006 "Block Party", Corner Gas
- Wanda "Hey, can you show us?"
Karen "No"
Brent "We promise not to make fun of you."
Karen "No"
Lacey "Okay, we promise TO make fun of you."
Karen "I'm getting a drink"
Lacey "I was trying a different tact."
Wanda "Bad tack."
- Wanda "Hey, can you show us?"
- 2006 "Block Party", Corner Gas
- (psychology) A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
- 2013, Jacob L. Gewirtz, William M. Kurtines, Jacob L. Lamb, Intersections With Attachment
- Skinner (1957) saw such tacts as responses that are reinforced socially.
- 2013, Jacob L. Gewirtz, William M. Kurtines, Jacob L. Lamb, Intersections With Attachment
Derived terms
- tactful
- tactless
Translations
Verb
tact (third-person singular simple present tacts, present participle tacting, simple past and past participle tacted)
- (psychology) To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).
Further reading
- tact on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- tact in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- tact in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
References
Anagrams
- Catt
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French tact.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?kt/
- Hyphenation: tact
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
tact m (uncountable)
- tact, discernment
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin tactus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /takt/
Noun
tact m (plural tacts)
- tact
Related terms
- tactile
Further reading
- “tact” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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sensitivity
English
Etymology
sensitive +? -ity
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: s?ns?t?v??t?, IPA(key): /?s?ns??t?v?ti/
Noun
sensitivity (countable and uncountable, plural sensitivities)
- The quality or state of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
- The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.
- (statistics) The proportion of individuals in a population that will be correctly identified in a binary classification test.
- (electronics) The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.
- (photography) The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength.
Derived terms
- high-sensitivity
Translations
References
- sensitivity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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- what sensitivity should i use for valorant
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