Digital vs Electric - What's the difference?
digital | electric |
Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger.
Property of representing values as discrete numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
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Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.
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Being emotionally thrilling; electrifying.
* (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Drawing electricity from an external source; not battery-operated; corded.
(informal) .
(rare) An electric car.
(archaic) A substance or object which can be electrified; an insulator or non-conductor, like amber or glass.
As adjectives the difference between digital and electric
is that digital is having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger while electric is electric.As a noun digital
is (finance) a digital option.digital
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(wikipedia digital)Adjective
(-)Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
- Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.
Antonyms
* nondigital * undigital * (representing discrete values) analog, analogueDerived terms
* digital computer * digitalize, digitalization * digital meter * digital storageelectric
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Alternative forms
* electrick (chiefly archaic)Adjective
(-)citation, passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
Out of the gloom, passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}
- Electric Pindar.
Derived terms
* electrical * electrical outlet * electrical engineer * electric chair * electric darts * electric eye * electric fence * electric grid (power grid) * electric shockNoun
(en-noun)References
* * *Dictionary.com definitions of electric* Niels H. de V. Heathcote (December 1967). "
The early meaning of electricity'': Some ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'' - I". ''Annals of Science 23 (4): pp. 261-275. 1000 English basic words ----
