Meaning

• The sense of touch; feeling.

• The stroke in beating time.

• Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.

  "By the use of tact, she was able to calm her jealous husband."

• A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).

Meaning

• To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).

Meaning

• A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.

• A maneuver used against an enemy.

• A sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.