digital

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: dig=it=al

OXFORD DICTIONARY

digital, adj.
1 of or using a digit or digits.
2 (of a clock, watch, etc.) that gives a reading by means of displayed digits instead of hands.
3 (of a computer) operating on data represented as a series of usu. binary digits or in similar discrete form.
4 a (of a recording) with sound-information represented in digits for more reliable transmission. b (of a recording medium) using this process.

Idiom

digital audio tape magnetic tape on which sound is recorded digitally. digital to analog converter Computing a device for converting digital values to analog form.

Derivative

digitalize v.tr. (also -ise). digitally adv.

Etymology

L digitalis (as DIGIT)

THESAURUS

digital

algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot, cardinal, clawed, decimal, dentate, differential, digitate, digitated, even, exponential, fanged, figural, figurate, figurative, fingered, finite, fractional, imaginary, impair, impossible, infinite, integral, irrational, jawed, logarithmic, logometric, negative, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric, odd, ordinal, pair, positive, possible, prehensile, prime, radical, raptorial, rational, real, reciprocal, submultiple, surd, taloned, toothed, transcendental