The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
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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