Usually means: Manual communication using hand alphabets.
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  1. fingerspelling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. fingerspelling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. fingerspelling: Vocabulary.com
  4. fingerspelling: Wiktionary
  5. fingerspelling: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. fingerspelling: Dictionary.com
  7. fingerspelling: Rhymezone
  8. fingerspelling: FreeDictionary.org
  9. fingerspelling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. fingerspelling: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Fingerspelling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fingerspelling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fingerspelling: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fingerspelling)

noun:  The practice of representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands to spell out words.
noun:  Any system for representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands; a manual alphabet that is a representation of a written alphabet.
noun:  A representation of the spelling of a word using such a system.

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