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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cher•eme (ker′ēm),USA pronunciation n. [Ling.]- Linguisticsany of a small set of elements, analogous to the phoneme in speech, proposed as the basic structural units by which the signs of a sign language are represented, and including the handshapes, hand movements, and locations of the hands in relation to the body employed in a particular sign language. Cf. allocher.
- Greek cheír hand (compare chiro-) + -eme; coined by U.south, southern. linguist William C. Stokoe (born 1919) in 1960
- irregularly
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