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contactless

adj

Etymology

From contact + -less.

  1. derived from contactus
  2. suffixed as contactless — “contact + less”

Definitions

  1. That does not use or require contact in order to happen or operate.

    • Please stay in touch with me / In this contactless society / Anywhere that you may be

  2. That has no contact or contacts.

  3. A technology for paying for goods etc. while physically present at the point of…

    A technology for paying for goods etc. while physically present at the point of interaction but without the need for physical contact.

    • The motivation for using contactless is clear: it is most popular for people in a rush (58 per cent), people with a queue behind them (30 per cent) and those in busy places with lots of people (26 per cent).
    • Even before the coronavirus struck, contactless was starting to become our way of life, our active choice.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for contactless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA