digit
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- noun
- /ˈdɪdʒɪt/
- Archaic
:
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- two digits
Examples
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During the night, something like a miracle happened: Jim's age grew an extra digit.
Fiction book (2000) -
The following data were documented for these five cases: age, sex, phalanx/digit involved, fracture type, and the presence or absence of ischemia of the fractured digit at the time of injury.
Academic text (2012) -
The length of the table in the ancient measurement system was defined as two digits wide.
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In historical texts, a digit often referred to the measurement based on the width of a person's finger.
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An old recipe indicates that you should add a pinch of salt, measured as one digit.
Synonyms
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9.8
A small measure about the width of a finger
1
9.9
The width of a finger used as a quick measure
A small distance equal to the width of a finger, often used to show a very small amount
Compounds
- Specialized
1
5.6
A digit that shows how exact a number is, from the first non-zero to final zeros that show accuracy
- Specialized
A single sign that shows a value from 0 to 11 in the base twelve number system
- Specialized
Average number of binary digits needed to show one digit in another number system
- Specialized
A single symbol used in computing that shows a value from 0 to 9 or A to F
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
A digit as a small unit of length comes from the Latin digitus ('finger'), because people used the width of a finger to measure short distances. So an old digit was about three quarters of an inch or 2 centimetres.