digital
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
digital (not comparable)
- Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger.
- Property of representing values as discrete, usually binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
- 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
- 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.
- digital computer; digital clock
- Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.
- Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.
AntonymsEdit
- nondigital
- undigital
- (representing discrete values): analog, analogue, continuous
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Thai: ดิจิทัล
TranslationsEdit
having to do or performed with a finger
representing discrete values
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of or relating to computers
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NounEdit
digital (countable and uncountable, plural digitals)
- (finance) A digital option.
- (uncountable) Digital equipment or technology.
- He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.
- (music) Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.
- c.1920?, Annie Jessy Gregg Curwen, The Teacher's Guide to Mrs. Curwen's Pianoforte Method (The Child Pianist)
- Beginning with the keyboard, direct attention to the grouping of the black digitals, and show that though at the outer edge of the keyboard the white digitals look as if they were all equally close neighbours, yet, […]
- c.1920?, Annie Jessy Gregg Curwen, The Teacher's Guide to Mrs. Curwen's Pianoforte Method (The Child Pianist)
- (colloquial, humorous) A finger.
- 1853, Yankee Notions (volume 2, page 137)
- […] turning round as he reached the door, he placed his digitals in close proximity to his proboscis, saying—“I guess there an't anything green about this child!' and left the Professor in utter astonishment […]
- 1855, North Carolina University Magazine (volume 3, page 23)
- […] with grave complacency wiggles his digitals, and turns away with a scornful smile playing upon his countenance.
- 1853, Yankee Notions (volume 2, page 137)
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin digitālis. Doublet of didal, which was inherited.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
digital (masculine and feminine plural digitals)
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin digitālis. Doublet of dé.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /di.ʒi.tal/
- Homophones: digitale, digitales
AdjectiveEdit
digital (feminine singular digitale, masculine plural digitaux, feminine plural digitales)
Usage notesEdit
digital is occasionally used in French to describe display devices such as TV screens. Its use for other purposes is often criticised, because this use derives from English, and because digital more commonly has the first meaning above. See also numérique
Further readingEdit
- “digital” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
digital (not comparable)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of digital
| number & gender | singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
| predicative | er ist digital | sie ist digital | es ist digital | sie sind digital | |
| strong declension (without article) |
nominative | digitaler | digitale | digitales | digitale |
| genitive | digitalen | digitaler | digitalen | digitaler | |
| dative | digitalem | digitaler | digitalem | digitalen | |
| accusative | digitalen | digitale | digitales | digitale | |
| weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der digitale | die digitale | das digitale | die digitalen |
| genitive | des digitalen | der digitalen | des digitalen | der digitalen | |
| dative | dem digitalen | der digitalen | dem digitalen | den digitalen | |
| accusative | den digitalen | die digitale | das digitale | die digitalen | |
| mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein digitaler | eine digitale | ein digitales | (keine) digitalen |
| genitive | eines digitalen | einer digitalen | eines digitalen | (keiner) digitalen | |
| dative | einem digitalen | einer digitalen | einem digitalen | (keinen) digitalen | |
| accusative | einen digitalen | eine digitale | ein digitales | (keine) digitalen | |
Further readingEdit
- digital in Duden online
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -ālis (“-al”).
AdjectiveEdit
digital m
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin digitalis, via English digital.
AdjectiveEdit
digital (neuter singular digitalt, definite singular and plural digitale)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “digital” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin digitalis, via English digital
AdjectiveEdit
digital (neuter singular digitalt, definite singular and plural digitale)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “digital” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin digitālis. Doublet of dedal, which was inherited.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
digital m, f (plural digitais, comparable)
- digital; having to do with the fingers or toes
- dealing with discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values
- dealing with the display of numerical values
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
digital m, n (feminine singular digitală, masculine plural digitali, feminine and neuter plural digitale)
- digital (having to do with fingers or toes)
- digital (dealing with discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values)
DeclensionEdit
declension of digital
| singular | plural | ||||||
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| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | digital | digitală | digitali | digitale | ||
| definite | digitalul | digitala | digitalii | digitalele | |||
| genitive/ dative |
indefinite | digital | digitale | digitali | digitale | ||
| definite | digitalului | digitalei | digitalilor | digitalelor | |||
Related termsEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin digitālis. Doublet of dedal, which was inherited.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
digital (plural digitales)
- digital; having to do with the fingers or toes
- dealing with discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values
- dealing with the display of numerical values
NounEdit
digital f (plural digitales)
- foxglove (plant, flower)
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin digitālis, via English digital.
AdjectiveEdit
digital (not comparable)
- digital; in (or using) digital (and electronic) form
Usage notesEdit
- Circa 2010, the word took on a wider definition, meaning electronic, modern, or binary (having only two values); digitalisering (“digitization”) started to being used not only of signals, information and documents (e.g. digitizing books or patient's journals), but also about enterprises, as a synonym to automation, computerization (e.g. digitizing libraries and hospitals).
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of digital | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | digital | — | — |
| Neuter singular | digitalt | — | — |
| Plural | digitala | — | — |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | digitale | — | — |
| All | digitala | — | — |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. | |||