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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Division into fingerlike parts.
  • noun A fingerlike part or process.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Finger-action; use of the fingers; fingering; manipulation with the fingers.
  • noun Digitiform arrangement or disposition of parts; division into finger-like parts; the state or quality of being digitate: as, the digitations of the serratus magnus muscle; the digitation of the tendon of the obturator internus.
  • noun A finger-like process; one of a series of digital parts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, a fingerlike process.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete Touching; manipulation with the fingers.
  • noun zoology, botany Any of various finger-like process found in plant and animal tissues.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From digitate +‎ -ation.

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