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digitise

digitise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of digitize.

Meaning of digitize

Verb

digitize (third-person singular simple present digitizes, present participle digitizing, simple past and past participle digitized)

  1. (transitive) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.
    • When you digitize a visual image, you are translating it into digital signals so that it can be broken down into pixels and loaded into the computer.2000, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, Fundamental Photoshop 5.5, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 302
    Synonyms:
    digitalize
  2. To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To finger.
    • to digitize a pen

Forms of digitise

third-person singular presentdigitises
present participledigitising
past participledigitised
pastdigitised

Words formed from digitise

Questions about digitise

What is digitise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Digitise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of digitize.

Words near digitise in the dictionary

  1. digitinervate
  2. digitinerved
  3. digiting
  4. digitisation
  5. digitisations
  6. digitise
  7. digitised
  8. digitiser
  9. digitisers
  10. digitises
  11. digitising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: digitise (page history and authors); digitize (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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