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  • noun Alternative spelling of finger pad.

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Examples

  • With this, I can set my voicings for the amplifiers by song title in the laptop by song name (or for that matter, any file name I choose) and pull them up with a touch of the fingerpad.

    My Apologies For an Extreme Lack of Posting 2009

  • With this, I can set my voicings for the amplifiers by song title in the laptop by song name (or for that matter, any file name I choose) and pull them up with a touch of the fingerpad.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • She was at the end of her rope—her right thumb was still clearly swollen and there was a yellow, mottled, dimpled abrasion on her fingerpad.

    Manicures: The price may be higher than it seems 2010

  • She was at the end of her rope — her right thumb was still clearly swollen and there was a yellow, mottled, dimpled abrasion on her fingerpad.

    Manicures: The price may be higher than it seems 2010

  • To corroborate his suspicion, Dr Ennos varied the area of each fingerpad that came into contact with the surface by using narrow and wide strips of acrylic glass.

    Fingerprint Grip Disproved By Science | Impact Lab 2009

  • In the next minute she felt a warm fingerpad, slick with oil, on her forehead.

    Courting Trouble Scottoline, Lisa 1993

  • Normally this would be an excuse to sidle over to my computer, rub my thumb over the fingerpad, and check my e-mail.

    post-gazette.com - News 2009

  • To check that skin behaves more like rubber than a normal solid, the duo varied the area of each fingerpad that came into contact with the surface by dragging narrow and wide strips of Perspex® along Warman's fingerpads.

    Primates in the News 2009

  • The one furthest left seems to be so obviously shaped to accept a fingerpad.

    msnbc.com: Community 2009

  • In the fingerpad experiments, the newly developed sanitizer produced a 2.48 log reduction of MNV-1 while the control product only produced a 0.91 log reduction.

    FoodProductionDaily RSS 2008

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