to digitalize
- verb
- /ˈdɪdʒɪtəˌlaɪz/
- Specialized
- The company decided to digitalize its records to improve accessibility and efficiency.
- digitalized images
Examples
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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Fourth, some of the problem comes from a lot of jobs becoming digitalized, and those who have been replaced by a computer were not prepared with an alternative.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.
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As technology advances, more industries are choosing to digitalize traditional processes for better performance.
Synonyms
To change information, images, or records into a form a computer can read
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.