Usually means: Visual communication using hand gestures.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word sign language:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. sign language: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sign language: Merriam-Webster
  3. sign language: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sign language: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sign language: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sign-language, sign language: Vocabulary.com
  7. sign-language: Wordnik
  8. sign language: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sign language: Wiktionary
  10. sign language: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sign language: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sign-language, sign language: Dictionary.com
  13. Sign Language, Sign language: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. sign language: Rhymezone
  15. sign language: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. sign-language: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sign-language, sign language: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. sign-language, sign language: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. sign language: FreeDictionary.org

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sign-language, sign language: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. sign language: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Sign language: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Sign language: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. sign language: Medical dictionary
  8. Sign language: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See sign_languages as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sign language)

noun:  (countable) One of several natural languages, typically used by the deaf, in which words consist of hand shapes, motions, positions, and facial expressions.
noun:  (uncountable) The sign language (sense 1) that is used locally or that is mistakenly believed to be the only one.
noun:  (uncountable) Sign languages (sense 1) considered collectively.
noun:  (countable or uncountable) Communication through gestures as a substitute for language, for example, between monks under a vow of silence or during trade amongst different linguistic groups.

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