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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fingerspell, finger-spellverb

    communicate by means of specific gestures, as an alternative to sign language

    "The Deaf often fingerspell"

Wikipedia

  1. fingerspell

    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.

ChatGPT

  1. fingerspell

    Fingerspell is a method of using specific hand gestures to communicate individual letters of the alphabet in a signed language, such as American Sign Language. This technique is typically used for spelling out proper nouns, unique words without established signs, or acronyms that don't have their own sign.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of fingerspell in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of fingerspell in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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