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Definitions of Finger:

feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book"
any of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb); "her fingers were long and thin"
feel: examine by touch; "Feel this soft cloth!"; "The customer fingered the sweater"
search for on the computer; "I fingered my boss and found that he is not logged on in the afternoons"
the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure
one of the parts of a glove that provides covering for a finger or thumb
indicate the fingering for the playing of musical scores for keyboard instruments
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The finger is any of the digits of the hand in humans and other species such as the great apes. The grace of the fingers is not sacrificed to their dexterity due to the placement of their muscles in the forearm, with motion communicated via long tendons which may be observed on the back of the hand. A notable exception is the thumb, with its flexor and rotators comprised in the hand itself.
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A finger (sometimes finger-breadth), when used as a unit, is usually seven eighth of an inch or 2.2225 cm (for the international inch). The width of an adult human male finger tip is indeed about 2 centimetres. The inch, on the other hand, originates in the breadth of a thumb. ...
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Software that allows you find out more information about an Internet user, such as their real name and if they are logged in at the present moment.
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Internet service that provides information about the users on a particular computer.
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an Internet software tool for locating people on other Internet sites. A finger is also sometimes used to give access to non-personal information, but the most common use is to see if a person has an account at a particular Internet site. Not all sites allow incoming finger requests.
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A UNIX program that lets you retrieve basic information about an Internet user or host. Finger is available at various sites on the World Wide Web.
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A Unix program which displays information about a particular user or all users logged on the system, or a remote system.
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is a computer network command which allows the user of the computer system A to identify a user from computer system B who is logged onto computer system A. The command can be "turned off" or disabled by the user of the computer system B so that if anyone executes the "finger" command to identify them, they are invisible to it and cannot be identified.
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A UNIX command that provides identification about Internet servers and user names.
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Tool for checking user-ids or addresses.
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Finger is a program that tells you the name associated with an email address. It may also tell you whether they are currently logged on at their system or their most recent logon session and possibly other information, depending on the data that is maintained about users on that computer. Finger originated as part of BSD UNIX. To finger another Internet user, you need to have the finger program on your computer or you can go to a finger gateway on the Web and enter the email address. ...
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a simple form of interrogation of a remote machine or user - the response may be details of who is currently logged onto the system or other informatiom as decided by the system operator - if an individual is 'fingered', they may respond with a 'plan' file giving witty and/or useful information about the user
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Long, narrow extensions from the main body of the fire.
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An Internet system that allows you, if you have someone's e-mail address, to find out who the person is, when he or she last checked in for mail, and several other bits of information. If that person has written a ".plain" or ".project" file, that will also be displayed. For example, to see the account information and .plan file for the address oakridge@world.std.com, just type finger oakridge@world.std.com at your access provider's main prompt.
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A UNIX program that takes an e-mail address as input and returns information about the user who owns that e-mail address.
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An Internet protocol which allows one to check a user's login information.
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A service provided by Internet to determine who is currently logged into a particular host or to find out information about other users.
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A Unix utility program found on many Internet systems and online services that displays information about a specific user, including full name, login time, and location. Finger may also display the contents of the user's .plan or .project file.
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In the inner player mechanism, the device by which movement of the pneumatic is transferred to the piano action. A finger glued to the pneumatic is called the pneumatic finger; a finger located on a rail with other fingers is sometimes called a flanged finger. Flanged fingers often have a screw adjustment called a capstan for adjusting the relationship of the flanged finger to the piano action.
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A program that searches for and displays information about a particular user, or all users, logged onto a network system. The information displayed usually includes the individual's full name, last login time, idle time, connect time, and their terminal location.
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An Internet software tool for locating people on other Internet sites. The finger command on Unix will return user information such as login name, full name, last time the user received mail etc. Finger is also sometimes used to give access to non-personal information, but many sites do not allow incoming Finger requests.
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An Internet program that shows information about the users currently logged on to a computer.
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A gold-plated terminal of a card-edge connector. Also see Gold Finger.
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UNIX software that weeds out information (particularly email info) about an Internet user and returns the data to the requesting party. This might include the user's full name and whether he is online at the moment. Due to abuse by commercial mass emailers, UNIX systems now ignore many finger queries.
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An Internet tool used to get information about a remote computer system or a distant Email account.
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A TCP/IP application which is used to obtain a list of persons logged onto other hosts or the status of a specific user on another host.
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two programs which comprise a database of electronic mail addresses. The ``finger server" stores the addresses and processes inquiries; the ``finger client" makes the inquiries.
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