The phrase "a first contact" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an initial interaction or meeting with someone or something, often in contexts like diplomacy, science fiction, or personal relationships.
Example: "The scientists were excited about a first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization."
Alternatives: "an initial encounter" or "a preliminary meeting".
The element of time does not really enter in a first contact with a painting.
The weekly says that a first contact with the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction was made early in May.
In a first contact miscible displacement, the injected fluid forms only single-phase mixtures with oil in place, so in theory, 100% recovery can be achieved.
He suggested that during the NRA convention, Trump meet Torshin, whom he described as "President Putin's emissary on this front," as a "first contact". He wrote that Trump could then visit the Kremlin before the election.
Only about 60% of customers expect their issue to be handled on a first contact via self-service, mobile, and social media, and many have been disappointed with the final outcomes of their contacts through those channels.
For some students, like Savanah Hernandez, the excursions provided more than a first contact with salamanders; the trip to Black Rock Forest was her inaugural visit to the woods.
As a result, science fiction writers often centred their energies on a first contact with aliens, such as those found in Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
'If it's not a first-contact situation, then it's fraudulent.
BLIND LAKE (Tor/Tom Doherty, $24.95) is a first-contact-with-aliens story that revolves around a group of humans whose lives, like those of many of Wilson's characters, are seriously askew.
La La Land will be joined on the Lido by the likes of The Light Between Oceans, the heartrending weepie starring Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, Terrence Malick's documentary Voyage of Time, Nocturnal Animals, the second film from fashion designer Tom Ford, and Arrival, a first-contact alien sci-fi thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve.
DME is a first-contact miscible solvent with reservoir oil and is also partially soluble in water because of its polarity, (mu = 1.3;{text{D}}), where (mu) is the dipole moment and D is the Debye unit where 1 D is 10−18 electrostatic units of charge times centimeters (Nelson et al. 1967).
