<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The contact or connection maintained by communications between units of the armed forces or of any other organization in order to ensure concerted action, cooperation, etc.</li><li>A person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection.</li><li>An illicit sexual relationship.</li><li>Cooking: the process of thickening sauces, soups, etc., as by the addition of eggs, cream, butter, or flour.</li><li>Phonetics: a speech-sound redistribution, occurring especially in French, in which an otherwise silent final consonant is articulated as the initial sound of a following syllable that begins with a vowel or with a silent h, as the z- and n- sounds in "Je suis un homme."</li></ul>