Dictionary

digitation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /dɪdʒɪˈteɪʃən/ (UK)

Etymology

From digitate + -ation.

Meanings

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Touching; manipulation with the fingers.
   • 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. 1749, John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Penguin, published 1985, page 64:
2. (countable, uncountable) Any of various finger-like processes (outgrowths) found in plant and animal tissues.

Forms

Deriveds

interdigitation

Relateds

multidigitate · digitalization · dactyly · digitization · prestidigitation