Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or resembling a digit, especially a finger.
- adj. Operated or done with the fingers: a digital switch.
- adj. Having digits.
- adj. Expressed in numerical form, especially for use by a computer.
- adj. Computer Science Of or relating to a device that can read, write, or store information that is represented in numerical form. See Usage Note at virtual.
- adj. Using or giving a reading in digits: a digital clock.
- n. A key played with the finger, as on a piano.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to a digit or digits: as, the digital phalanges.
- Resembling digits; digitate.
- n. A digit; a finger or toe.
- n. The fifth and last joint of the pedipalp of a spider. It is generally larger than the preceding joints, sometimes much swollen, and in the males modified to form the complicated sexual or palpal organs.
- n. One of the keys or finger-levers of instruments of the organ or piano class.
- n. One of those primaries, or quill-feathers, most commonly four in number, which are attached to the phalanges of the second and third digits of a bird's wing.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger.
- adj. Property of representing values as discrete numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
- adj. Of or relating to computers or the Computer Age.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the fingers; done with the fingers
- adj. of or pertaining to digits{3}; expressed in digits{3}, or using
digits{3} . - adj. (Computers) performing internal logical and arithmetic operations by means of digits, usually represented as binary numbers. Contrasted to
analog , wherein variables are represented as coninuous physical quantities such as voltages or the position of a pointer on a continuous scale.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or performed with the fingers
- adj. displaying numbers rather than scale positions
- adj. of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits
Etymologies
- From Latin digitālis, from digitus ("finger, toe") + -alis ("-al"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Your sample picture shows white clipped at ~108IRE (digital 256) but black level around 15IRE (~digital 32).”
“The term "digital nervous system" was popularized in the 1990s -- the idea that a computer network can fulfill the same functions as the human nervous system.”
“The term digital divide indicates those individuals who are advantaged versus those who are relatively disadvantaged by the Internet and helps illuminate our understanding of inequality in the consequences of innovation.”
“The term "digital divide" used to refer to whether classrooms had computers connected to the Internet.”
“Ms. MacKinnon deploys the phrase "digital bonapartism" to describe the policy of strong-arm leaders who use the Internet to seek legitimacy, for instance by crowdsourcing input on new laws or using pro-government bloggers to slur out-of-favor officials.”
“Some people use the phrase "digital literacy" for skills with digital tools.”
The Huffington Post: James Gee: Digital Natives, Digital Brains?
“I was disappointed in this video for the definition given to the term digital story.”
“Given this potential breadth in the term digital literacy why not just narrow your concerns to that which you describe which is Social Media?”
“The problem with the term digital literacy is that it specifies the technology, whereas the knowledge that we wish to teach and analyze extend beyond this to use.”
“IMHO the term digital media versatility does satisfy the need better as the discipline should strive after versatility in thinking and acting with digital media.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘digital’.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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UO Digi-Scholars List
A list of words for creating a new name for the U of O Digital Scholars Group.
oregon, northwest, cascadia, pacific, collaboratory, consortium, community, interdisciplinary, research, scholars, scholarly, media and 12 more...
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admonition, integrate, dominate, emerging, sensation, intense, mentor, intuition, elegant, chassis, culture, chronicle and 76 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Very basic words for ESL students.
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chwait's list
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Prosie: Obama's Inaugural Address
In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling.
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Samme's Words
soliloquy, meander, creativity, magic, discovery, happiness, empowerment, abundance, [magnificent], iridescent, artistic, magical and 694 more...
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Words I come across at work.
Now stripped of most military terms, which have found a new home on the list Historical Military Terms of Interest. See also (and add to!) hilarious misspe...chaise-marine, delft, delftware, quince, tympan, cresset, navvy, venn diagram, poop deck, apothecary, heliotrope, millinery and 294 more...
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postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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editorinchief's Words
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