Digit vs Digitalization - What's the difference?
digit | digitalization |
A finger or toe.
* Owen
A numeral that can be combined with others to write larger numbers, and that cannot itself be split into other numerals.
(slang, in the plural) One's phone number.
(archaic) A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three quarters of an inch.
(astronomy) A twelfth of the diameter of the Sun or Moon; used to express the quantity of an eclipse.
The act or process of converting from analog to digital
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 20, author=Douglas Martin, title=Joybubbles, 58, Peter Pan of Phone Hackers, Dies, work=New York Times
, passage=Well before the mid-1970s, when digitalization ended the tone-based system, Joybubbles had stopped stealing calls. }}
As nouns the difference between digit and digitalization
is that digit is a finger or toe while digitalization is the act or process of converting from analog to digital.As a verb digit
is to point at or point out with the finger.digit
English
Noun
(en noun)- The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.
- The digits of the decimal number system are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, and those in the hexadecimal number system are those in the decimal system along with A, B, C, D, E and F.
- The number 2307 has four digits: the thousands digit is 2; the hundreds digit is 3; the tens digit is 0; and the units digit is 7.
- That girl likes me — she gave me her digits .
- An eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.
Derived terms
* digital * digitizedigitalization
English
Alternative forms
* digitalisationNoun
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