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haptic

haptic

1 7.9
About how something feels when you touch it, like feeling a phone vibration
  • adjective
  • /ˈhæptɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : háptico
  • Virtual reality systems often use haptic feedback to enhance the immersive experience.
  • haptic feedback
  • haptic device
  • haptic technology

Tips of your thumb with these haptic touch pads.

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Examples

  • In addition, a haptic display may make it possible for a person who is deaf-blind to travel independently.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The modeling environments and haptic feedback devices now being adapted for surgical training have existed for decades.

    Academic text (2006)
  • Yeah, the haptic feedback is actually not bad.

  • The gaming industry is a widespread user of haptic technology.

    Academic text (2003)
  • And respect to Apple for their haptic touchpads.

  • Palmerius has come up with methods to explore volume data using the sense of touch via haptic feedback.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Students who find difficulty expressing a steady beat through movement might benefit from haptic feedback technology.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The book requires the viewer to pace through these images while holding them, further layering the haptic engagement.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Anthropologists have addressed the haptic sense, or the sense of touch, but other skin sensations are given little to no attention.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Presently, virtual instruments do not offer haptic feedback that would simulate the feeling of striking a drum.

    Academic text (2015)

Synonyms

tactile
vshaptic
21 5.1

Relating to the sense of touch

highlights touch as a distinct sense rather than other senses
tactual
vshaptic
  • Specialized
8.6

Relating to the sense of touch

emphasizes touch specifically as separate from sight and hearing

Antonyms

492 3.3

About seeing or things you can see

auditory
  • Specialized
28 5.2

Relating to hearing or the way people hear sounds

Compounds

haptic sensation
  • Specialized
7.5

A feeling on your skin when you touch or press something

Surface Forms

haptic positive

Morphology

haptic = hapt + ic

The root 'hapt-' is a non‑English combining form (not a standalone word) so learners cannot derive 'haptic' from a familiar base; only the adjectival suffix '-ic' is visible.

Etymology

Haptic comes from the Greek root hapto meaning 'to touch'. So haptic describes things that let you feel by touch, like a phone's small vibrations that make a button press feel real.