digital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”), equivalent to digit + -al. Doublet of digitalis.
Senses: examples: text: digital palpation
text: digital examination
coordinate_terms: dactylo-
fingerlike
toelike
glosses: Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.
examples: text: digital computer
text: digital clock
text: Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
ref: 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
text: This meter is a 3½ digit digital multimeter that is rugged, reliable and convenient to use, while providing all of the accuracy and features needed for any application.
ref: 2017 October 23, “DIGITAL MULTIMETER M-1000E”, in Elenco, page 4:
glosses: Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: computerized, electronic, digitized, virtual
text: Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.
coordinate_terms: online
glosses: Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.
Derived terms: analog-to-digital converter
asymmetric digital subscriber line
bidigital
biodigital
born digital
digerati
digilante
digipeater
digiscope
digital addiction
digital age
digital amnesia
digital audio
digital audio workstation
digital autism
digital backlot
digital blackface
digital brownshirt
digital camera
digital cash
digital certificate
digital clock
digital commons
digital computer
digital converter box
digital courage
digital currency
digital dark age
digital decay
digital detox
digital direct marketing
digital distribution
digital divide
digital electronics
digital exhaust
digital footprint
digital forensics
digital gap
digital ghost
digital gold
digital good
digital graffiti
digital handcuffs
digital hardcore
digital health
digital hoarding
digital humanities
digitalia
digital image
digital immigrant
digital ink
digitalise
digitalism
digital library
digitally
digital media
digital medicine
digital meter
digital mind
digital native
digitalness
digital nomad
digital nomadism
digital on-screen graphic
digital overhead
digital pad
digital paper
digital pet
digital piano
digital picking
digital poverty
digital PR
digital predistortion
digital pre-distortion
digital press
digital remastering
digital restrictions management
digital rights management
digital root
digital rupee
digital scarcity
digital service provider
digital shadow
digital sharecropping
digital signal
digital signature
digital slow motion
digital still camera
digital stimulation
digital storage
digital subscriber line
digital target
digital television
digital thermometer
digital-to-analog converter
digital transformation
digital twin
digital versatile disc
digital video
digital video disc
digital video recorder
digital wallet
digital watch
digital watermark
digital weapon
digiterati
digitextuality
digitize
digitalize
digitalization
digitron
digizine
extradigital
globital
homodigital
infradigital
integrated services digital network
interdigital
interdigitally
lacrimoauriculodentodigital
monodigital
non-digital
oculodentodigital
oculodigital
odonto-tricho-ungual-digital-palmar syndrome
orofaciodigital
pandigital
peridigital
personal digital assistant
phygital
polydigital
post-digital
postdigital
predigital
sexdigital
subdigital
time stretch analog-to-digital converter
time-to-digital converter
tradigital
tridigital
Related terms: digitalis
digitality
digitate
digitigrade