to digitize
- verb
- /ˈdɪdʒɪˌtaɪz/
- Specialized
- We can now digitize the old photographs and store them on our computer.
- digitized image
- digitized measurement
- digitized newspaper
It is an attainable goal, and that is to digitize our entire life.
- It is an attainable goal, and that is to digitize our entire life.
- We've filmed and and digitized the data from horses.
- And we found a company that digitizes documents and they just scan in bulk.
- And words, as I say, have this tremendous advantage of being digitized, whereas ideas really don't.
- It's it's it's kind of like a codec for digitizing video.
- And most of my paperwork, however, is digitized.
- Every page of the whole Bible digitized means I can read the book as it's closed beside me.
- So basically everything you buy, sell, own, store transfer is going to be digitized.
- So it's basically tokenizing modern art in a way and digitizing it.
- That's the open question because many aspects of our lives are still not really that digitized.
- It's just scary leap into this new world of going from the human eye, inspecting to digitizing that process, having a camera, having an algorithm.
- But actually half of our lab is devoted to this question of, of ultimately digitizing smell.
- And you may know the plates are currently being digitized because they are still valuable and irreplaceable resource.
Examples
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A Japanese parliament has decided to digitize the book in it, the books in its collection.
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Once all the data are in a digitized format, the data cleaning process can commence.
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You think your guys can digitize this so we could scan it properly?
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Let's digitize the rest of the films, and we'll leave at sunrise.
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When we talk about a digitized economy, we have to talk more about equality of opportunity.
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I want to digitize some images into my computer to see if any kind of unified theory emerges.
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And we found a company that digitizes documents and they just scan in bulk.
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For institutions wishing to digitize material, determining the copyright status of a published work can be time-consuming.
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Note-taking apps help digitize the note-taking process and assist in the organization and storage of information.
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The library decided to digitize the rare books to preserve them for future generations.
Synonyms
To use a device or program to read digital information
Change physical things like documents or photos into a digital form a computer can use
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Morphology
Etymology
The word digitize comes from digit, a word that first meant 'finger' and later 'number', and the ending -ize, which means 'make or become'. So to digitize something is to turn information into 'digits' or numbers that a computer can use.