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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