MEANING
Technology or study concerned with communicating sensations through touch and force feedback.
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- haptic feedback
- haptics system
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Haptics let her feel resistance in the remote controls.
The simulation’s haptics reproduced the texture of stone.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Mass noun for the field; not a singular haptic. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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