Phalange vs Digit - What's the difference?
phalange | digit |
(obsolete) A phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.).
(anatomy) A phalanx.
(politics) A political movement, the Falange.
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.
As nouns the difference between phalange and digit
is that phalange is a phalanx (of soldiers, people etc.) while digit is a finger or toe.As a proper noun Phalange
is a right-wing Lebanese paramilitary movement based somewhat on the Spanish Falange.As a verb digit is
to point at or point out with the finger.phalange
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(en noun)digit
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(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.
