Decaffeinated coffee comes from a chemical process that takes out caffeine from the beans. Pharmaceutical and soda companies buy the extracted caffeine.
DIGITIZE
digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise
(verb) put into digital form, as for use in a computer; “he bought a device to digitize the data”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
digitize (third-person singular simple present digitizes, present participle digitizing, simple past and past participle digitized)
(transitive, computing) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits
To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value
(transitive, obsolete) To finger.
Synonyms
• (represent in binary): digitalize
Source: Wiktionary
Dig"i*tize, v. t. Etym: [Digit + -ize.]
Definition: To finger; as, to digitize a pen. [R.] Sir T. Browne. computers to convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in binary notation
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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