Electrical contact also called contact or contact junction, is the contact component of electric switch, instruments and meters and so on, which takes on the task of current on or off.

电触头亦称触点或接点，是电器开关、仪器仪表等的接触元件，担负着通断电流的任务。

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There's the junction transistor and a point-contact transistor.

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