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adjective

of or pertaining to a digit or finger.

resembling a digit or finger.

manipulated with a finger or the fingertips: a digital switch.

displaying a readout in digital form: a digital speedometer.

having digits or digitlike parts.

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of, pertaining to, or using data in the form of numerical digits.

Computers. involving or using numerical digits expressed in a scale of notation to represent discretely all variables occurring in a problem.

of, pertaining to, or using numerical calculations.

available in electronic form; readable and manipulable by computer.

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noun

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one of the keys or finger levers of keyboard instruments.

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So is distributed data processing. Does it mean:

a method of organizing data processing that uses a central computer that communicates with smaller local computers, which may communicate with each other

self-contained and able to operate without other hardware or software

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Latin digitālis, equivalent to digit(us) (see digit) + -ālis -al¹

Related forms

dig·it·al·ly, adverb

in·ter·dig·i·tal, adjective

in·ter·dig·i·tal·ly, adverb

post·dig·i·tal, adjective

pre·dig·i·tal, adjective

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The digital revolution has transformed both the fashion industry and pop culture.

Researchers and students haven't stopped reading in this digital era.

Warier users can install a personal digital wallet on their own computers.

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The digital revolution has transformed both the fashion industry and pop culture.

Researchers and students haven't stopped reading in this digital era.

Warier users can install a personal digital wallet on their own computers.

Digital motion-detection cameras capture elusive wildlife.

In digital cameras, more pixels normally translate to better pictures.

Only then will he capture them in outsize photographs that he takes not with a camera but with a digital tool-a flatbed scanner.

Take notes with your digital camera and don't worry about the weather.

The publishing industry is still feeling out ways to take advantage of new digital formats.

The single lens reflex camera has long been every digital photographer's dream.

Researchers are adding radio-powered sensors, drug-delivering systems and wireless digital displays to contact lenses.

But this is one digital model that backs up its pretty facade with dynamite performance.

It's fun to watch these industries reinvent themselves in the digital age.

Today's digital domain has placed wonderful tools at our disposal for creation and performance.

The world of children's digital books is quickly becoming as densely populated as the rest of the app world, if not more so.

The transition to digital television broadcasting is now complete.

It is easy to see why content owners want to limit digital copying.

The latest digital cameras have made vacation photography a snap.

Collecting all digital data on people could yield key insights into our nature, but violate privacy.

Lately, microscopy has been greatly enhanced by digital image processing.

There are still a few things film cameras do that digital cameras don't.

Google had big plans for its new digital music service.

Add audio captions to travel photos and mementos by using this innovative digital recorder and playback device.

Digital gadgets demand ever more of our attention with their rude and thoughtless interruptions.

The key is shifting the chemical world into the digital world.

All that has made digital textbooks a hard business to crack.

Testing the medical expertise of the digital herd.

Be on the leading edge of digital video technology.

IC chips bring digital quality to conventional radios.

Digital photographs should be submitted at the highest resolution possible.

The semi-annual trip to the dentist gets more interesting as more dentists go digital.

Two new digital pens don't need special paper to write on.

Reply with cool things you have done with your digital camera.

With a little work and the right software, you can get your digital music collection humming.

After years of false starts, theater owners remain skeptical of the digital revolution.

Blacks and other members of minorities of various ages are merging onto the digital information highway as never before.

Such books are effectively in digital limbo because their owners cannot be found to ask permission for digital use.

Digital products can be less beautiful than physical ones.

The wall art is a digital image transferred onto fabric then stretched into place with a tiny metal frame.

Yahoo announces the debut of a digital newsstand that will offer personalized content on mobile devices.

The move ends a high-profile experiment in digital university-press publishing.

The new discipline of digital rock physics has, nevertheless, attracted considerable attention within the industry.

Our digital handheld scale prevents baggage overweight surprises at the airport.

To find the best answers, digital services are turning to actual humans.

The digital photography revolution is in full-swing.

Most people do nothing when confronted with blatant displays of digital rudeness, a corporate training firm has found.

Scholars turn monographs into digital conversations.

Users are told whom to trust by digital certificates, which allow a.

Twenty-five tools in one compact package, including digital time and weather readings.

Digital photos and videos are great, but don't expect your grandkids to see them.

Digital photographs should be taken at the highest resolution possible.

News photography is flourishing in the digital era, even as skeptics question whether seeing is deceiving.

The organizing and protecting of digital files has become a new career field.

The soapbox of the digital age draws a crowd of academics.

But publishers need to adapt better to the digital world.

As multiband radio for public safety proceeds, the digital spectrum for it still lags.

One of the hottest digital pet items is a collar attachment that allows you to track your animal in real time.

Generating digital content for the media you already own is a frustrating experience.

Where to find the subscription and auto-renewal setting in iTunes if you want to cancel a digital subscription.

Print and digital subscribers receive full access to each week's edition.

The steady rise of digital cameras has prompted the rapid growth of a new industry: instant photographic developing.

Take a thrilling multimedia journey through the galaxy at a digital planetarium, meet.

With an internet connection, users can buy digital versions of books from publishers l.

Limit the intake of empty digital calories, and do not consume too much over all.

Digital images offer professors flexibility in teaching, but creating collections is difficult.

And, unlike a digital camera, you almost instantly get something you can hold in your hand and keep.

Cellphones are slowly killing inexpensive digital cameras.

Digital photography has taken family photos to unexpected places: coffee mugs, mouse pads, aprons and even jigsaw puzzles.

In an era when people expect high-quality digital experiences all the time, and interactions.

Tech companies handcuff our files to protect against digital pirates.

Think of all the shelf space you could free up if that digital music resided on one.

Some words about the new digital subscription plan.

Seeing a digital doppelgänger can change your mind-for better or worse.

In its place has risen the digital camera, a product so successful that it.

Many children want to read on digital devices, while parents worry technology will distract young bookworms.

The original vision was to create a printer small enough to fit inside a digital camera.

The only downside is that the jewelry was of the digital variety.

If you think all things digital are magic, there's now a digital pen gadget that might easily impress you.

Think how the jack-of-all-trades mobile phones pushed aside the dedicated personal digital organizers.

Second, every broadcast medium is moving to a digital format, and digital means data compression.

The average resolution for displayed works is seven billion pixels-1,000 times that of the average digital camera.

The major labels seem to be willing to abandon digital rights management.

Upload a photo and receive a canvas to paint, bringing manual fun to the digital age.

Discover the town through an interactive digital model.

In a few years, diabetics might get inked up with digital tats that communicate.

The alteration of digital imagery is a critical issue in contemporary photojournalism.

It also reminds me of how bad my handwriting has become since the digital age rolled in.

Slight shifts in infidelity rates among young people and women suggest that digital media may be playing a role.

Today he is an inspiration to a new generation of artists working in digital media and the internet.

Simple-to-use digital technology will make it more difficult to distort history in the future.

I've had my eye on the kids' digital camera market for a while.

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World English Dictionary

digital (ˈdɪdʒɪt^əl)

—*adj*
1.	of, relating to, resembling, or possessing a digit or digits
2.	performed with the fingers
3.	representing data as a series of numerical values
4.	displaying information as numbers rather than by a pointer moving over a dial: a digital voltmeter; digital read-out
5.	electronics responding to discrete values of input voltage and producing discrete output voltage levels, as in a logic circuit: digital circuit
6.	a less common word for digitate

—n
7.	music one of the keys on the manuals of an organ or on a piano, harpsichord, etc

'digitally

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

digital

1650s, "pertaining to fingers," from L. digitalis, from digitus (see digit). Meaning "using numerical digits" is from 1938, especially of computers after c.1945; in reference to recording or broadcasting, from 1960. Related: Digitize.

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

digital dig·i·tal (dĭj'ĭ-tl)
adj.

Of or resembling a finger or toe or an impression made by them.
Done or performed with a finger.

dig'i·tal·ly adv.

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

digital

(dĭj'ĭ-tl) Pronunciation Key

Anatomy Relating to or resembling a digit, especially a finger.
Computer Science Representing or operating on data or information in numerical form. A digital clock uses a series of changing digits to represent time at discrete intervals, for example, every second. Modern computers rely on digital processing techniques, in which both data and the instructions for manipulating data are represented as binary numbers. Compare analog. See also logic gate.

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Computing Dictionary

Digital definition

company
Common abbreviation for Digital Equipment Corporation.
(1995-12-18)

digital definition

data
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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