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digitalise

digitalise is the alternative spelling of digitalize.

Meaning of digitalize

Verb

digitalize (third-person singular simple present digitalizes, present participle digitalizing, simple past and past participle digitalized)

  1. (transitive) Synonym of digitize.
    • How to lawfully digitalize resources has become the principal issue in constructing digital libraries. To digitalize resources means to transform a document into digital format, which only adds a mode of using the resources but does not produce a new one.2004, Tom Mendina, Johannes J. Britz, editors, Information Ethics in the Electronic Age […] , McFarland, →ISBN, page 89
    Synonyms:
    digitize
  2. To administer digitalis.
    • The dosage should be sufficient to produce satisfactory digitalization but it is our impression that it is less hazardous to digitalize with moderate rapidity than by using a massive dose.1951 January, Irving S. Wright, “The treatment of coronary thrombosis with myocardial infarction”, in Veterans Administration Technical Bulletins (10), volume IV, U.S. Government Printing Office...

Forms of digitalise

third-person singular presentdigitalises
present participledigitalising
past participledigitalised
pastdigitalised

Origin of digitalise

From digital + -ise.

Questions about digitalise

What is digitalise the alternative spelling of?
Digitalise is the alternative spelling of digitalize.

Words near digitalise in the dictionary

  1. digitalines
  2. digitalins
  3. digitalis
  4. digitalisation
  5. digitalisations
  6. digitalise
  7. digitalised
  8. digitalises
  9. digitalising
  10. digitalism
  11. digitalities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: digitalise (page history and authors); digitalize (page history and authors). 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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