digitationとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪdʒɪˈteɪʃən/

名詞

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.

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• goniatitid