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English

Etymology

From {{term|digitalis|digitālis|lang=la}}, from {{term|digitus||finger, toe|lang=la}}

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈdɪʤətl/,
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-digital.ogg


Adjective

digital

  1. Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger.
  2. Property of representing values as discrete numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
  3. :* digital computer, digital clock
  4. Of or relating to computers or the Computer Age.


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Derived terms


Translations

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French

Pronunciation


Adjective

{{fr-infl-adj|sm=digital|sf=digitale|pm=digitaux|pf=digitales|smp=di.ʒi.tal|sfp=di.ʒi.tal|pmp=di.ʒi.tɔ|pfp=di.ʒi.tal}}

  1. of or pertaining to fingers or toes
  2. digital


Usage notes

digital is occasionally used in French to describe display devices such as TV screens. Its use for other purposes is often criticised, because this use derives from English, and because digital more commonly has the first meaning above.

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German

Adjective

  1. #English|digital
  2. #English|digital


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Portuguese

Adjective

  1. #English|digital; having to do with the fingers or toes
  2. dealing with discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values
  3. dealing with the display of numerical values


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Spanish

Adjective

{{es-adj|feminine=digital|masculine plural=digitales|feminine plural=digitales}}

  1. #English|digital; having to do with the fingers or toes
  2. dealing with discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values
  3. dealing with the display of numerical values


Category:Technology

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English digital \dig"i*tal\ (d[i^]j"[i^]*tal), a. [L. digitals.]
1. Of or pertaining to the fingers; done with the fingers;
as, digital compression; digital examination.
[1913 Webster]

2. of or pertaining to digits[3]; expressed in digits[3], or
using digits[3]; as, a digital display; a digital clock.
[PJC]

3. (Computers) performing internal logical and arithmetic
operations by means of digits, usually represented as
binary numbers. Contrasted to analog, wherein variables
are represented as coninuous physical quantities such as
voltages or the position of a pointer on a continuous
scale; as, a digital computer.
[PJC]

Note: In digital computers, physical quantities in analog
form, such as images, sounds, distances, voltages,
etc., must first be converted to an internal digital
representation before calculations can be performed on
them. The conversion may be done by the data enterer,
by approximation, in the case of numerical values, or
by analog-to-digital conversion in the case of light or
sound intensities. The latter case uses special
equipment to convert the physical impulses into a
digital value, using a pre-defined encoding system.
[PJC]
WordNet digital
adj 1: of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits;
"digital computer" [ant: analogue]
2: displaying numbers rather than scale positions; "digital
clock"; "digital readout"
3: relating to or performed with the fingers; "digital
examination"
Moby Dictionary
algorismic , algorithmic , aliquot , cardinal , clawed , decimal ,
dentate , differential , digitate , digitated , even , exponential ,
fanged , figural , figurate , figurative , fingered , finite ,
fractional , imaginary , impair , impossible , infinite , integral ,
irrational , jawed , logarithmic , logometric , negative , numeral ,
numerary , numerative , numeric , odd , ordinal , pair , positive ,
possible , prehensile , prime , radical , raptorial , rational , real ,
reciprocal , submultiple , surd , taloned , toothed , transcendental


FOLDOC Digital

Common abbreviation for {Digital Equipment
Corporation}.

(1995-12-18)


FOLDOC digital

A description of data which is stored or transmitted
as a sequence of discrete symbols from a finite set, most
commonly this means binary data represented using electronic
or electromagnetic signals.

The opposite is analogue.

(1998-10-28)


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