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digital

digital

631 3.0
Showing information as numbers on devices like a phone or clock
  • adjective
  • /ˈdɪdʒɪtəl/
: digital
  • The museum's digital archive allows users to explore historical documents online.
  • digital literacy
  • digital tools
  • digital technology

So in a sense, that's creating digital or discrete outputs.

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Examples

  • In a digital age where every cell phone is a camera, we are all broadcasters.

  • The gauge cluster is fully digital and kind of cool.

  • Dad, are you going to find the digital camera, now?

  • It's a digital broadcast base.

  • With respect to cloud storage, this means digital data can also receive Fourth Amendment protection.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Many of the presidential libraries link to digital collections that are organized by topic.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The youths in Nigeria today live in a digital age and are therefore digital learners.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Students began creating presentations that incorporated digital video and audio, stop animation, or digital photography.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The CCSS also calls for students to use digital tools to interact and collaborate with others.

    Academic text (2015)
  • 6 DOIs are persistent, unique links assigned to digital content such as electronic journal articles.

    Academic text (2012)

Synonyms

numerical
vsdigital
36 4.1

About numbers rather than words

is used mainly in technology and displays rather than in general contexts
numeric
vsdigital
10 4.6

Relating to or using numbers to show information

is mainly used in technology and displays rather than general measurement

Antonyms

analog
  • Specialized
36 5.4

Using changing physical signals instead of digital numbers

Compounds

A camera that takes pictures and stores them so you can view them on a screen

Taking and saving pictures with electronic cameras instead of film

A clock that shows the time using numbers

digital computer
  • Specialized
5 3.7

A machine like a phone or laptop that handles information using the numbers 0 and 1

digital communication
  • Specialized
4 3.5

Sending information by digital signals between devices like computers or phones

A watch that shows the time as numbers on a screen

An electronic screen that shows numbers or letters

A small handheld electronic device for keeping contacts, schedules, and notes

A machine that makes an electronic copy of a paper or photo for a computer

1 3.6

A fast internet connection that uses a telephone line

A person who works online while traveling to different places

digital artery
  • Specialized
1 6.3

A blood vessel that carries blood to a finger or toe

1 5.3

A tape used to record and play sound in digital form

1 4.8

A device that changes digital signals into sound or picture signals for speakers and screens

1 5.4

A device that changes electrical signals into digital numbers for computers

1 4.7

A device that changes real signals like sound into digital numbers a computer can use

1 4.7

A device that changes digital signals into sound for speakers or images for screens

Tools and systems that send and receive information using computers or phones

Planned online activities to promote products or services

Technology that stops people from accessing and copying digital files

A way for electronic instruments and computers to send musical data to each other

digital brownshirt
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who uses threats or harassment online to silence others

digital vein
  • Specialized
1 7.3

A tube that carries blood away from a finger or toe

A small digital container that keeps files safe for future use

7.1

A small medical device that clips on a finger or toe to measure blood flow

digital voltmeter
  • Specialized
4.1

A device that measures voltage and shows numbers on a screen

How Digital

cybernated
  • Specialized
1 7.4
cyber
165 4.3
digital
631 3.0
online
  • Texting
806 1.0
electronic
414 3.5
analog
  • Specialized
36 5.4

Surface Forms

digital positive

Morphology

digital = digit (semi-transparent) = digit + al

The form is transparently based on 'digit' + '-al', but the modern technology sense is a specialized extension of the older numeral meaning.

Etymology

Digital also comes from the same Latin digitus ('finger') because people used their fingers to count, and that root became the word digit for a 'number'. So digital now often means 'shown or used as numbers', as in a digital clock.