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I. noun see: contingent Date: 1626 1. union or junction of surfaces, the apparent touching or mutual tangency of the limbs of two celestial bodies or of the disk of one body with the shadow of another during an eclipse, transit, or occultation, c. the junction of two electrical conductors through which a current passes, a special part made for such a junction, 2. association, relationship, connection, communication, an establishing of communication with someone or an observing or receiving of a significant signal from a person or object , a person serving as a go-between, messenger, connection, or source of special information , ~ lens, II. verb Date: 1834 intransitive verb to make ~, transitive verb to bring into ~, 2. to enter or be in ~ with ; join, to get in communication with , Usage: The use of ~ as a verb, especially in sense 2b, is accepted as standard by almost all commentators except those who write college handbooks. III. adjective Date: 1859 maintaining, involving, or activated or caused by ~