chereme

 [ker-eem]  

cher·eme

   [ker-eem]
noun Linguistics.
any 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.
Compare allocher.

Origin:
irregular < Greek cheír hand (compare chiro-) + -eme; coined by U.S. linguist William C. Stokoe (born 1919) in 1960

Related forms
che·re·mic  [kuh-ree-mik, ke-] , adjective
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a native speaker of a language who supplies utterances and forms for one analyzing or learning the language
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