Fingering

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Finger
2. n. The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.
3. n. The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc.
4. n. The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.