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manual alphabet
noun
An alphabet whose letters are represented by positions of the hand and fingers.
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"manual alphabet" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a system of communicating using hand gestures or hand movements, typically used by individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Example: Sarah's grandmother was deaf, so Sarah learned the manual alphabet in order to communicate with her.
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His in- most thoughts are discussed at nightfall, in manual alphabet, by darkly gesticulating trees.
And though it took some doing, before long she was speaking with the manual alphabet fluently enough to make puns.
With patience and creativity, Sullivan within a month succeeded in teaching Keller, by means of a manual alphabet, that things had names.
And though she was early taken in hand by a writerly intelligence, it was hardly in the power of the manual alphabet to pry out a writer who was not already there.
She learned Braille and the manual alphabet — finger positions representing letters — and, at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, underwent two operations, which enabled her to read almost normally, though the condition of her eyes was fragile and inconsistent over her lifetime.
We learn how to use the hand to calculate when Easter falls; how the hand can be used as an (inexact) sundial; how the Guidonian hand (after Guido of Arezzo) can be used to remember music; how a manual alphabet can speak to the deaf and transmit silent messages to the hearing.
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She remained firmly committed to oral teaching and lipreading despite the criticism of the manualists who promoted the exclusive use of manual alphabets and sign language.
Experiments revealed that our system was able to recognize the 30 Arabic manual alphabets with an accuracy of 93.55%.
The work presented in this paper aims at developing a system for automatic translation of gestures of the manual alphabets in the Arabic sign language.
The use of manual alphabets and signs was recorded in Europe from the 16th century, as was the gestural system of Hand Talk used by Native Americans to facilitate communication between different linguistic groups.
Tagliente's manual also included the Latin alphabets and added Hebrew and Arabic alphabets.
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