Definitions
1.nounThe sense of touch; feeling.
2.nounThe stroke in beating time.
3.nounSensitive 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."
4.nounA 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).
5.verbTo use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).
6.nounA maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.
7.nounA maneuver used against an enemy.
8.nounA sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.