digital
/ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/
digital adjective: having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger. Also the ellipsis of digital watch.
Adjective
digital (not comparable)
- Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.
- digital palpation
- digital examination
- Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
- digital computer
- digital clock
- Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.
- Near-synonyms: computerized, electronic, digitized, virtual
- Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.
- Synonyms:
- computerized, electronic, digitized, virtual
Noun
digital (countable and uncountable, plural digitals)
- 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.
- 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)
- A finger.
- […] 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 […]1853, Yankee Notions, volume 2, page 137
- […] with grave complacency wiggles his digitals, and turns away with a scornful smile playing upon his countenance.1855, North Carolina University Magazine, volume 3, page 23
Also used as
digital is also the ellipsis of digital watch.
digital is also the ellipsis of digital art.
digital meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
digital in Hindi
- having to do or performed with a finger
- डिजिटल dijiṭal
- representing discrete values
- डिजिटल ḍijiṭal
- of or relating to computers
- डिजिटल ḍijiṭal
digital in Marathi
- डिजिटल
digital in Urdu
- ڈیجیٹل
digital in Bengali
- ডিজিটাল
More languagesFewer languages
- digital in Telugu
- డిజిటల్
- digital in Malayalam
- ഡിജിറ്റൽ
- digital in Kannada
- ಡಿಜಿಟಲ್
- digital in Punjabi
- ਡਿਜੀਟਲ, ਡਿਜ਼ੀਟਲ
- digital in Gujarati
- ડિજિટલ
- digital in Odia
- ଡିଜିଟାଲ୍, ଡିଜିଟାଲ
- digital in Nepali
- डिजिटल
- digital in Arabic
- إِصْبَعِيّ ʔiṣbaʕiyy, رَقْمِيّ raqmiyy
- digital in Malay
- digital
- digital in Indonesian
- digital
- digital in Persian
- دیجیتال dijitâl, رقمی raqami
- digital in Thai
- ดิจิทัล dí-jì-tâl
- digital in Vietnamese
- số
Examples of digital in a sentence
- 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.2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
- 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.2017 October, “DIGITAL MULTIMETER M-1000E”, in Elenco, page 4:
Synonyms of digital
Antonyms
Forms of digital
| plural | digitals |
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Origin of digital
Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”), equivalent to digit + -al. Doublet of digitalis.
Words formed from digital
- analog-to-digital converter
- asymmetric digital subscriber line
- bidigital
- biodigital
- born digital
- digerati
- digilante
- digipeater
- digiscope
- digital addiction
- digital age
- digital amnesia
- digital-asset treasury company
- 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 fatigue
- digital footprint
- digital forensics
- digital gap
- digital garden
- digital gardening
- digital ghost
- digital gold
- digital good
- digital graffiti
- digital handcuffs
- digital hardcore
- digital health
- digital highway
- digital hoarding
- digital humanities
- digitalia
- digital image
- digital immigrant
- digital ink
- digitalise
- digitalism
- digital library
- digitally
Phrases with digital
- digital PR
- Digital Era
- digital pad
- digital pen
- digital pet
- digital gaps
- digital mind
- digital pads
- digital pens
- digital pets
- digital root
- digital twin
111 more phrasesFewer phrases
- digital goods
- digital media
- digital meter
- digital minds
- digital nomad
- digital paper
- digital piano
- digital press
- digital roots
- digital rupee
- digital twins
- digital video
- digital watch
- digital clocks
- digital ghosts
- digital images
- digital medias
- digital meters
- digital native
- digital nomads
- digital pianos
- digital rupees
- digital shadow
- digital signal
- digital target
- digital wallet
- digital weapon
- digital cameras
- digital detoxes
- digital divides
- digital gardens
- digital natives
- digital picking
- digital poverty
- digital presses
- digital shadows
- digital signals
- digital storage
- digital targets
- digital wallets
- digital watches
- digital weapons
- digital backlots
- digital highways
- digital medicine
- digital nomadism
- digital overhead
- digital scarcity
- digital computers
- digital dark ages
- digital libraries
- digital overheads
- digital signature
- digital watermark
- digital addictions
- Digital Audio Tape
- digital currencies
- digital footprints
- digital gardenings
- digital immigrants
- digital signatures
- digital television
- digital video disc
- digital watermarks
- digital brownshirts
- digital photo frame
- digital remastering
- digital slow motion
- digital stimulation
- digital televisions
- digital thermometer
- digital video discs
- digital certificates
- digital photo frames
- digital remasterings
- digital still camera
- digital stimulations
- digital picture frame
- digital predistortion
- digital sharecropping
- digital still cameras
- digital picture frames
- digital pre-distortion
- digital predistortions
- digital transformation
- digital versatile disc
- digital video recorder
- digital converter boxes
- digital pre-distortions
- digital subscriber line
- digital transformations
- digital versatile discs
- digital video recorders
- digital service provider
- digital subscriber lines
- digital on-screen graphic
- digital rights management
- digital service providers
- digital audio workstations
- digital on-screen graphics
- digital single-lens reflex
- personal digital assistant
- personal digital assistants
- digital single-lens reflexes
- digital asset treasury company
- digital restrictions management
- digital asset treasury companies
- digital single-lens reflex camera
- digital single-lens reflex cameras
- Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines
- integrated services digital network
Questions about digital
- What does digital mean?
- Digital means having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.
- What is digital in Hindi?
- Digital in Hindi is डिजिटल (dijiṭal). See Digital meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use digital in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is digital?
- Digital can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce digital?
- Digital is pronounced /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/.
Words near digital in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: digital (page history and authors); digital (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); digital (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); digital (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); digital (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); digital (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); digital (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); digital (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); digital (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); digital (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); digital (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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