Digit vs Organ - What's the difference?
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A finger or toe.
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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.
A largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
(by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
(musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
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, title= An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
A species of cactus ().
(slang) The penis.
(obsolete) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
* Bishop Mannyngham
Digit is a related term of organ.
As nouns the difference between digit and organ
is that digit is a finger or toe while organ is organ.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 * digitizeorgan
English
(wikipedia organ) (Pipe organ)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ , the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* barrel organ * house organ * internal organ * mouth organ * pipe organ * sense organ * sex organ * storage organ * swell organ * vital organExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)- Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.