Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To put (data, for example) into digital form.
 
from The Century Dictionary.
- To finger; handle.
 
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To finger.
 - transitive verb (Computers)  To convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in numbers or in binary notation. The original signal before 
digitization is usually inanalog form. 
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb   To 
represent something (such as an image or sound) as astructured sequence ofbinary digits  - verb   To 
quantize acontinuous oranalog value; to convert it into adiscrete value - verb obsolete  To 
finger . 
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer
 
Etymologies
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Examples
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Open access digitization projects are wonderful, but the fact is, much of the drive to digitize is commercial.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Digitizing the U.S. Congressional Serial Set 2006
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Open access digitization projects are wonderful, but the fact is, much of the drive to digitize is commercial.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't digitize, that is...
Archive 2008-07-09 Lynne M Thomas 2008
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't digitize, that is...
RBMS Report II: Permissions Limbo Lynne M Thomas 2008
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The problem with this thesis is that even as we "digitize" our lives, the population's consumption patterns remain finite.
Steven Bulwa: How Much Can a Business Grow? The Limitations of a Finite Economy Steven Bulwa 2010
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The problem with this thesis is that even as we "digitize" our lives, the population's consumption patterns remain finite.
Steven Bulwa: How Much Can a Business Grow? The Limitations of a Finite Economy Steven Bulwa 2010
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Even the term "digitize" has numerous meanings--mass digitization, high-quality preservation scanning, boutique, subject-related projects, and can include the management of born digital materials, not just the transfer from analog to digital formats.
RBMS Report I: Digital Special Collections: The Big Picture Lynne M Thomas 2008
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Even the term "digitize" has numerous meanings--mass digitization, high-quality preservation scanning, boutique, subject-related projects, and can include the management of born digital materials, not just the transfer from analog to digital formats.
Archive 2008-07-02 Lynne M Thomas 2008
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EA Sports supports 'Project Ten Dollar,' out to 'digitize' Madden consumers
Joystiq David Hinkle 2010
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EA Sports supports 'Project Ten Dollar,' out to 'digitize' Madden consumers
Joystiq David Hinkle 2010
 
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