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S vs Digit - What's the difference?

s | digit |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun digit is

a finger or toe.

As a verb digit is

to point at or point out with the finger.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    digit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A finger or toe.
  • * Owen
    • The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.
  • A numeral that can be combined with others to write larger numbers, and that cannot itself be split into other numerals.
    • 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.
  • (slang, in the plural) One's phone number.
    • That girl likes me — she gave me her digits .
  • (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.
    • An eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.

    Derived terms

    * digital * digitize

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To point at or point out with the finger.