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Digital vs Written - What's the difference?

digital | written |

As adjectives the difference between digital and written

is that digital is having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger while written is of, relating or characteristic of writing (ie, of that which has been written).

As a noun digital

is (finance) a digital option.

As a verb written is

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digital

Adjective

(-)
  • 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

    Noun

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

    written

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, relating or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written)
  • I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.
  • That was written.
  • Derived terms

    * unwritten, writtenness, unwrittenness

    Quotations

    * * * * * * *

    Antonyms

    * oral * verbal

    Derived terms

    * hand-written

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,