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digital ink

digital ink noun: digital drawings or text.

Noun

digital ink (uncountable)

  1. Digital drawings or text.
    • Another method of symbolic input using penbased input is to simply draw the actual strokes of the pen, as if the pen were writing with “digital ink.” This technique is available on many PDAs as well and allows users to easily and naturally input text, symbols, numbers, drawings, and so on.2004, Doug Bowman, Ernst Kruijff, Joseph J. LaViola Jr., Ivan Poupyrev, 3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice, CourseSmart eTextbook, Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 377
    • If you're fortunate enough to be running Excel 2007 on a Tablet PC computer, you can mark up your worksheets with digital ink. […] By default, Excel chooses the felt tip pen as the pen type for annotating the worksheet with digital ink.2011, Greg Harvey, Excel 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 661

Origin of digital ink

From digital + ink.

Questions about digital ink

What does digital ink mean?
Digital ink means digital drawings or text.
What part of speech is digital ink?
Digital ink is a noun.

Words near digital ink in the dictionary

  1. digital humanities
  2. digital image
  3. digital images
  4. digital immigrant
  5. digital immigrants
  6. digital ink
  7. digital libraries
  8. digital library
  9. digital media
  10. digital medias
  11. digital medicine

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