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| digital arteries
| digital audiotape
| digital camera
| digital clock
| digital communication
digital
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective digital has 3 senses
- digital(a = adj.pert) Array - displaying numbers rather than scale positions; "digital clock"; "digital readout"
- digital(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or performed with the fingers; "digital examination" Derived form noun digit3
- digital(a = adj.all) Array - of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits; "digital computer" Antonym: analogue
OXFORD DICTIONARY
digital, adj.
1 of or using a digit or digits.
2 (of a clock, watch, etc.) that gives a reading by means of displayed digits instead of hands.
3 (of a computer) operating on data represented as a series of usu. binary digits or in similar discrete form.
4 a (of a recording) with sound-information represented in digits for more reliable transmission. b (of a recording medium) using this process.
1 of or using a digit or digits.
2 (of a clock, watch, etc.) that gives a reading by means of displayed digits instead of hands.
3 (of a computer) operating on data represented as a series of usu. binary digits or in similar discrete form.
4 a (of a recording) with sound-information represented in digits for more reliable transmission. b (of a recording medium) using this process.
Idiom
digital audio tape magnetic tape on which sound is recorded digitally. digital to analog converter Computing a device for converting digital values to analog form.
Derivative
digitalize v.tr. (also -ise). digitally adv.
Etymology
L digitalis (as DIGIT)
THESAURUS
digital
algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, cardinal, clawed, decimal, dentate, differential, digitate, digitated, even, exponential, fanged, figural, figurate, figurative, fingered, finite, fractional, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, jawed, logarithmic, logometric, negative, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, ordinal, pair, positive, possible, prehensile, prime, radical, raptorial, rational, real, reciprocal, submultiple, surd, taloned, toothed, transcendental
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