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Fingal County
Fingal County (Fine Gall), north of Dublin City, Ireland; administrative county created 1 January 1994 from Dublin County Council. Population 330,506 (2022), third largest Irish local authority, youngest median age (33.8), home to Dublin Airport.
Fingal's Cave
Fingal's Cave, or An Uamh Binn, is a 70 m deep sea cave of hexagonal basalt columns on Staffa, Inner Hebrides, formed by Paleocene lava and wave erosion, and made famous by Joseph Banks and Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture.
Finger
Finger: one of five human hand digits, each with three phalanges (two in the thumb), moved by tendons and ligaments. Hox and SHH patterning constrains tetrapods to at most five true digits.
Finger Eleven
Finger Eleven (formerly Rainbow Butt Monkeys) is a Canadian rock band from Burlington, Ontario, formed in 1990, known for "One Thing" and "Paralyzer" and the 2008 Juno-winning album Them vs. You vs. Me; latest album Last Night on Earth (2025).
Finger gun
Finger guns: hand gesture imitating a handgun, index finger pointed with thumb cocked, one or both hands. Used as greeting or playful emphasis; popularized in 1970s US culture (Texas Tech "Guns Up", The Love Boat), restricted by school zero-tolerance policies after Columbine.
Finger heart
Finger heart (손가락 하트, songarak hateu): a one-hand gesture crossing thumb and index finger into a tiny heart, meaning affection. Originating in South Korean pop culture around 2010, it spread globally via K-pop and the Korean Wave, distinct from two-handed heart poses.
Finger Lakes
The Finger Lakes are eleven narrow glacial lakes in western New York, including Seneca (deepest, about 200 m) and Cayuga; they supply drinking water to 1.5 million people and anchor a major cool-climate wine region.
Finger millet
Finger millet (Eleusine coracana, ragi) is a nutritious African-domesticated annual cereal rich in calcium, iron, and methionine, grown in arid Africa and Asia, tolerant of drought and poor soils, and limited by tannins, phytate, and blast disease.
Finger on the App
Finger on the App, also Finger On The App 2, was a 2020 MSCHF and MrBeast iOS endurance contest; 1.3 million players, 70 hours, four $20,000 winners, then a $100,000 sequel.
Finger pinching conspiracy theory
Finger pinching conspiracy theory: South Korean antifeminist theory from 2021 claiming feminists plant the thumb-index pinch gesture (jibgeson, tied to Megalia) in ads and games to mock men; widely assessed as a hoax that triggered boycotts and corporate self-censorship.
Finger stick
A finger stick is a minimally invasive procedure that pricks a fingertip with a lancet to obtain capillary blood for testing, especially glucose monitoring in diabetes.
Finger tapping task
The finger tapping task, also called the tapping task or synchronization-continuation task, is a behavioral paradigm measuring motor timing and control by tapping with, then without, a metronome.
Finger tapping test
The finger tapping test (FTT), also called the finger oscillation test, is a neuropsychological assessment measuring psychomotor speed by counting index-finger taps in 10-second trials.
FINGER trial
FINGER (Finnish Geriatric Intervention Study to Prevent Cognitive Impairment and Disability) is a 2015 randomized controlled trial of 1,260 at-risk older adults showing a 2-year multidomain lifestyle intervention improved cognition, spawning the World-Wide FINGERS network.
Fingering (sexual act)
Fingering: manual stimulation of a partner's clitoris or vagina with fingers or hand. Low-risk, safer sex; skin-to-skin STIs (warts, herpes, scabies) can pass, chlamydia and gonorrhea cannot; pregnancy risk extremely low.
Fingering instability
Fingering instability, also called wetting front instability, is the breakup of a planar wetting front into narrow wetting fingers during infiltration into unsaturated soil, which speeds water and solute movement to groundwater.
Fingerless gloves
Fingerless gloves are hand coverings that leave the fingers exposed while the palm and back stay covered, trading fingertip warmth for dexterity in uses from Victorian mitts to cycling.
Fingerprint
Fingerprint: impression of friction ridges on fingers, formed in fetal development, unique and lifelong. Used for identification since ancient China; modern forensics (Galton, Henry, AFIS) and biometrics with measured error rates.
Fingerprint body myopathy
Fingerprint body myopathy (OMIM 305550, ORPHA:97232) is a rare congenital myopathy with neonatal hypotonia, weakness, and fingerprint-pattern lamellar inclusions seen only on electron microscopy; under 20 patients reported.
Fingerprint detection
Fingerprint detection is the set of optical, physical, and chemical techniques used to develop ridge detail from latent fingerprints on surfaces so it can be compared for identification.
Fingerprint recognition
Fingerprint recognition is a biometric method that matches a finger's friction-ridge pattern against stored templates, either to verify a claimed identity or to search a database.
Fingerprints of the Gods
Fingerprints of the Gods (1995) is Graham Hancock's pseudoarchaeological bestseller arguing a lost Ice Age civilization built the Sphinx and Tiahuanaco and was destroyed by cataclysm; scholars classify it as pseudohistory.
Fingersmith (novel)
Fingersmith is Sarah Waters's 2002 neo-Victorian novel of pickpockets, fraud, and lesbian love in 1862 London, shortlisted for the Booker and Orange prizes and adapted as the BBC miniseries Fingersmith and Park Chan-wook's film The Handmaiden.
Fingerspelling
Fingerspelling, or manual alphabet, is the representation of written words in sign languages via one handshape per letter, as in ASL's one-handed and BSL's two-handed alphabets; used for names, unknown words, and lexicalized signs, at about 4-5 letters per second.
Fingerstick
A fingerstick is a minimally invasive blood sampling method in which a lancet pricks the fingertip for a small drop of capillary blood, most often for glucose testing.
Fingerstyle guitar
Fingerstyle guitar, also called fingerpicking, is playing guitar with fingers, nails, or fingerpicks instead of a pick. Developed in the USA around 1900 imitating ragtime; thumb plays bass, fingers play melody; includes Travis picking and percussive fingerstyle.
Finglas
Finglas (Fionn Ghlas, Clear Stream) is a Dublin suburb about 6 km northwest of the city centre, site of an early Christian monastery founded around 560 A.D., now undergoing major regeneration via the Jamestown SDRA and the proposed Luas Finglas extension.
Fingolimod
Fingolimod (FTY720), sold as Gilenya, is an oral sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor modulator for relapsing multiple sclerosis, approved by the FDA in 2010 as the first oral MS therapy.
FinGPT
FinGPT is an open-source project for financial large language models by the AI4Finance Foundation, introduced in a 2023 paper as an alternative to proprietary systems like BloombergGPT.
Fingrid
Fingrid is Finland's state-majority-owned transmission system operator, founded in 1996, which operates the roughly 14,900-kilometer high-voltage main grid, maintains power system balance, and participates in ENTSO-E.