American Sign Language

noun

a visual-gesture language, having its own semantic and syntactic structure, used by deaf people in the U.S. and English-speaking parts of Canada. Abbreviation: ASL

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Also called Ameslan.

Origin:
1960–65

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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American sign language

—n
	See Ameslan

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