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Touch

Touching is having or getting a zero distance; in geometry it refers
especially to a tangent line or curve. See also collision.

When a person touches something or somebody this gives rise to various
feelings: the perception of pressure (hence shape, softness, texture,
vibration, etc.), heat, cold and sometimes pain (see the senses). Holding or
moving something is usually done by touching (exceptions are e.g. blowing or
using a magnet or engine), but this is sometimes done indirectly, e.g. with
pliers.

Touching another person is a form of physical intimacy and plays an
important role in human sexual behavior, but also in physical abuse, such as
striking, pushing, pulling, pinching, kicking, etc.

Touching is a form of nonverbal communication.

Human babies have been observed to have enormous difficulty surviving if
they do not possess a sense of touch, even if they retain sight and hearing.
Babies who can feel the sense of touch, even without sight and hearing, fare
much better. The implications are intriguing from an AI perspective. Touch
can be considered a basic sense in that nearly all life forms have a
response to being touched, while only a subset have sight and hearing.

Quote {Leonard Cohen): I needed so much/ To have nothing to touch/ I've
always been greedy that way.. -from The Night Comes On (1984)

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One can also be emotionally touched.

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"Touch" is one of the most traditional Manga in Japan. It is about brothers
who play baseball, trying to play at the Koushien. The youger brother is
called the Katsuya, and the older brother is called Tastuya, and they were
twins. In fact, Tastuya had never played baseball until he entered the high
school. Comparing to this, Kastuya was a very fomous baseball player since
he was in middle school, but he died when he was in the first grade in high
school by a car accident. Kastuya's death made Tastuya play baseball to
accomplish Kastuya's dream. When Kastuya was alive, these two boys fell in
love with a same girl, called Minami, who was a childhood friend with
Tastuya and Kastuya. After Kastuya's death, Tastuya and Minami supported
eachother to accomplish eachother's goal. Tastuya's goal was to play
baseball at the KOUSIENN, and Minami's goal was to do a good performance at
the All Japan Gymnastic Tournament. They fell in love gradually but Tastuya
can't show his emotions that he loves Minami because of his dead brother. He
knew that Kastuya loved Minami too, so he feels a sense of guilt to Kastuya.
This Manga creates a story of their difficult love and their enshusiasm
towards their sports.

A 102-episode anime TV series, three movies, and one TV special were also
produced.

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Touch is a rock band.

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Touch is also a record label concentrating on experimental electronic music
- see Touch (record label).
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Touch is a novel by Elmore Leonard, later made into a film directed by Paul
Schrader and starring LL Cool J, Christopher Walken, and Skeet Ulrich.

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