digital
Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.
Adjective 3 meanings
Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.
“digital palpation”
Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
“digital computer”
Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.
“Near-synonyms: computerized, electronic, digitized, virtual”
Noun 4 meanings
A digital option.
Digital equipment or technology.
“He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.”
Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.
A finger.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”), equivalent to digit + -al. Doublet of digitalis.
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DIGITAL at a glance
DIGITAL has 7 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (D 2 + I 1 + G 2 + I 1 + T 1 + A 1 + L 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,516 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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