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to digitalize

to digitalize

1 5.1
Change physical things like documents or photos into a digital form a computer can use
  • verb
  • /ˈdɪdʒɪtəˌlaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : digitalizar
  • The company decided to digitalize its records to improve accessibility and efficiency.
  • digitalized images

Examples

  • For many of today's students, a book is just a database waiting to be digitalized.

    Academic text (1996)
  • By digitalizing the process, many could make money through volume.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Fourth, some of the problem comes from a lot of jobs becoming digitalized, and those who have been replaced by a computer were not prepared with an alternative.

    Blog text (3)
  • Suarez told a Virginia Festival of the Book audience on Wednesday that digitalizing books may preserve linguistic codes, but that other aspects of a book disappear.

    Blog text (22)
  • The Meter-Master Model 100EL uses a strap-on magnetic sensor to digitalize a meter's magnetic drive signal without any meter alteration or service interruption.

    Academic text (1998)
  • They develop it, transfer the negative onto tape that can be digitalized into the Avid computer, and make a simultaneous copy that can be screened on any VCR.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • For instance, the Primarily History project examined historians' information-seeking behavior since the advent of the World Wide Web, online finding aids, digitalized collections, and the increasingly pervasive networked scholarly environment.

    Academic text (2015)
  • To see whether symmetry played a role in the perception of human beauty, ethologist Karl Grammer of Vienna University and I conducted a study in which men and women were presented with digitalized images of opposite-sex faces of varying degrees of symmetry.

    Academic text (1993)
  • To enhance learning, schools are aiming to digitalize their curriculum and resources.

  • As technology advances, more industries are choosing to digitalize traditional processes for better performance.

Synonyms

to digitize
vsto digitalize
  • Specialized
24 3.9

To change information, images, or records into a form a computer can read

converts broader kinds of information and material into digital form for computer use

Surface Forms

digitalize infinitive
digitalise infinitive
digitalized past participle
digitalised past participle
digitalizing present participle
digitalising present participle
digitalizes third person singular
digitalises third person singular

Morphology

digitalize = digital (transparent) = digit + ize

The word is transparently formed from 'digital' with the addition of the suffix '-ize' to indicate conversion into a digital form.

Etymology

Digitalize comes from digit, an old word for 'finger' that later came to mean a 'number' or a small piece of data, and the ending -ize which means 'make'. So to digitalize something is to turn it into numbers or digital data a computer can use.