digitation

English

Etymology

From digitate +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪdʒɪˈteɪʃən/

Noun

digitation (countable and uncountable, plural digitations)

1. (obsolete) Touching; manipulation with the fingers.
   • 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, published 1985, page 64:

     At length, I resorted to the only present remedy, that of vain attempts at digitation, [...] where the pain my fingers gave me in striving for admission, though they procured me a slight satisfaction for the present, started an apprehension, which I could not be easy until I had communicated to Phoebe and received her explanations upon it.

2. (zoology, botany) Any of various finger-like processes (outgrowths) found in plant and animal tissues.

Derived terms

• interdigitation

 

Related terms

• digitalization
• digitization
• multidigitate
• prestidigitation

 

See also

• dactyly

 

Anagrams

• goniatitid

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

digitation f (plural digitations)

1. (botany) digitation

Further reading

• “digitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.