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Haptic means about the sense of touch, or giving you the feeling that you are touching something real. A haptic signal is one you feel with your skin or your hands, not one you see or hear.
Haptic觸覺的 means的意思是 about the sense of touch跟觸覺有關, or giving you the feeling或是給你一種感覺 that you are touching something real正在觸摸真實東西。A haptic signalA haptic signal（觸覺訊號） is是 one you feel with your skin or your hands你用皮膚或雙手感覺到的訊號, not不是 one you see or hear用看或用聽的。
Phone makers love this word: haptic feedback is the little buzz when you tap a key on a glass screen, so your finger feels a click that is not really there. In labs and in game design, haptic tools can push, shake, or resist your hand to copy weight and texture.
Phone makers手機廠商 love this word很愛用這個詞: haptic feedbackhaptic feedback（觸覺回饋） is就是 the little buzz那個小小的震動 when you tap a key on a glass screen你按玻璃螢幕上的按鍵時, so讓 your finger feels a click你的手指感覺到一個按鍵感 that is not really there其實不存在。In labs and in game design在實驗室和遊戲設計裡, haptic toolshaptic的工具 can push, shake, or resist your hand可以推、震動，或是抵抗你的手 to copy weight and texture來模擬重量和質地。
It is a technical, slightly formal adjective. Everyday people still just say touch or vibration.
It is這 a technical, slightly formal adjective是個技術性、稍微正式的形容詞。Everyday people一般人 still just say還是就說 touch or vibrationtouch（觸摸）或vibration（震動）。
Though actually, vibration is only one cheap kind of haptic trick; richer haptic systems can copy shape and push-back, not only a buzz.
Though actually不過, vibrationvibration only is只是 one cheap kind of haptic trickhaptic技巧裡便宜的一種; richer haptic systems更豐富的haptic系統 can copy shape and push-back可以模擬形狀和反作用力, not only不只是 a buzz震動而已。
組成From Ancient Greek haptikós, able to come in contact with, from háptō, to touch, plus -ikós, a suffix that turns a noun idea into an adjective.
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- hapticsthe noun: the science or technology of touch feedback
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
hapticadj/ˈhæptɪk/
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Of or relating to the sense of touch.
- So there may be sciences of touch, taste, and smell; which will be Haptic, Geustic and Osphrantic.
- Although the five basic senses are often studied as individual systems covering visual, auditory, taste, smell, orientation and the haptic sensations, there is an interplay between the senses.
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computingengineeringmathematicsOf or relating to haptics (“the study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch”).
- [T]he new standard should encompass other media, such as video, audio (both captured and synthetic), and in principle be extensible to new modalities such as haptic output and speech or gestural input, which have become increasingly integrated within graphics applications; […]
- We might think, for example, about tele- (or remote) surgery, a technique that, now more than ever before, is enabling surgeons around the world to operate using haptic interfaces that control robotic systems located at different locations.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。