fingerspelling in English
noun
1
a form of sign language in which individual letters are formed by the fingers to spell out words.
‘Helen may have remembered her awakening to language as a sudden revelation at the garden pump, but Annie Sullivan's diary tells that it took many weeks of fingerspelling on Helen's hands before connections started to be made in her mind’.
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1. The amount of fingerspelling varies with the context and the age of the signer.