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What is the difference between digital and avatar?

digital | avatar |

As nouns the difference between digital and avatar

is that digital is a digital option while avatar is in Hinduism the incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.

As an adjective digital

is having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger.

digital

English

(wikipedia digital)

Adjective

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  • Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger.
  • Property of representing values as discrete numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
  • Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.
    • Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.

    Antonyms

    * nondigital * undigital * (representing discrete values) analog, analogue

    Derived terms

    * digital computer * digitalize, digitalization * digital meter * digital storage

    Related terms

    * digitalis * digitate * digitigrade * digitality

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (finance) A digital option.
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    avatar

    English

    Alternative forms

    * avatara (rare) * Avator (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • In Hinduism the incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu.
  • The physical embodiment of an idea or concept; a personification.
  • * 1886 , Robert Louis Stevenson, dedicatory letter to Kidnapped [contrasting the historical Alan Breac with his incarnation in the novel].
    • And honest Alan, who was a grim fire-eater in his day, has in this new avatar no more desperate purpose than to steal some young gentleman's attention from his Ovid...
  • (computing, or, gaming) A digital representation or handle of a person or being; often, it can take on any of various forms, as a participant chooses. i.e. 3D, animated, photo, sketch of a person or a person's alter ego, sometimes used in a virtual world or virtual chat room.
  • * 1992 (Neal Stephenson), (Snow Crash)
    • The people are pieces of software called avatars . They are the audiovisual bodies that people use to communicate with each other in the Metaverse.
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