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digitally

digitally

32 3.9
To use computers or electronic devices to make and store information
  • adverb
  • /ˈdɪdʒɪtəli/
  • Specialized
translation icon : digitalmente
  • We can listen to music digitally through streaming services.
  • digitally recorded
  • digitally encoded
  • digitally stored

I see it digitally, but I wasn't there.

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Examples

  • Each focus group was digitally recorded and ranged from 60 to 90 minutes in length.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The interview was approximately two and a half hours in length, digitally recorded, and transcribed into text.

    Academic text (2005)
  • We can listen to it digitally at home

  • Especially at a time where I think our students increasingly need to know what it means to write digitally or to write online.

  • Since it comes in digitally, it can readily be used for AI.

  • Students' oral reading tests were digitally recorded for the GORT-5 data analysis.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Japan is not the most networked country in the world, but the quality of relationships online and digitally mediated is very, very strong.

  • Simon and Mitchell now prefer to create music digitally, whereas Kosmogonik uses digital and acoustic tools.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Airbus engineers will use the software to digitally create the A3XX completely before manufacturing.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Students are learning to submit their assignments digitally using online platforms.

Synonyms

electronically
vsdigitally
48 3.5

Using computers, phones, or other machines instead of paper

uses discrete numerical or binary data rather than broad electrical methods

How Electronic

digitally
  • Specialized
32 3.9
automatically
  • Specialized
257 3.1
mechanically
11 3.7
manually
72 3.5

Surface Forms

digitally positive

Morphology

digitally = digital (transparent) = digit + al + ly

This is a regular adverb formed from the adjective 'digital' with '-ly', and the meaning follows directly from the base adjective.

Etymology

Digitally also traces back to Latin digitus, 'finger', because people used fingers to count and the English digit came to mean a small 'number'. So today, digitally often means 'by using numbers or computer technology'.