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fingerspelling
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fingerspelling
noun
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▪ As far as can be made out, systems of fingerspelling have always come about by hearing invention.
▪ In both countries fingerspelling has become incorporated into sign language communication and deaf people will use fingerspelling with one another.
▪ In most languages with writing systems alphabetic fingerspelling has been available for over two hundred years.
▪ The most significant finding is that when signing is added to fingerspelling, communication level increases further.
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fingerspelling

n. 1 The practice of representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands to spell out words. 2 Any system for representing the letters of the alphabet using just the hands. 3 A representation of the spelling of a word using just the hands.

WordNet
fingerspelling

n. an alphabet of manual signs [syn: finger spelling]

Wikipedia
Fingerspelling

Fingerspelling (or dactylology) is the representation of the letters of a writing system, and sometimes numeral systems, using only the hands. These manual alphabets (also known as finger alphabets or hand alphabets), have often been used in deaf education, and have subsequently been adopted as a distinct part of a number of sign languages; there are about forty manual alphabets around the world. Historically, manual alphabets have had a number of additional applications—including use as ciphers, as mnemonics, and in silent religious settings.