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Technology vs Digital - What's the difference?

technology | digital |

As nouns the difference between technology and digital

is that technology is (uncountable) the organization of knowledge for practical purposes while digital is (finance) a digital option.

As an adjective digital is

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

technology

English

Noun

(wikipedia technology)
  • (uncountable) The organization of knowledge for practical purposes.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}
  • All the different and usable technologies developed by a culture or people.
  • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "technology": assistive, automotive, biological, chemical, domestic, educational, environmental, geospatial, industrial, instructional, medical, microbial, military, nuclear, visual, advanced, sophisticated, high, modern, outdated, obsolete, simple, complex, medieval, ancient, safe, secure, effective, efficient, mechanical, electrical, electronic, emerging, alternative, appropriate, clean, disruptive.

    Derived terms

    * * * *

    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.
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