DIGITAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does digital mean? 

• DIGITAL (adjective)
  The adjective DIGITAL has 3 senses:

1. displaying numbers rather than scale positions

2. relating to or performed with the fingers

3. of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits

  Familiarity information: DIGITAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIGITAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Displaying numbers rather than scale positions

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

digital readout

Pertainym:

digit (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or performed with the fingers

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

digital examination

Pertainym:

digit (a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates)

Derivation:

digit (a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits

Context example:

digital computer

Domain category:

electronics (the branch of physics that deals with the emission and effects of electrons and with the use of electronic devices)

Antonym:

analogue (of a circuit or device having an output that is proportional to the input)

 Context examples 

Digital mammography assists in the early detection of breast cancer by incorporating modern electronics and computers into x-ray mammography methods.

(Digital mammography, NCI Thesaurus)

A unique code used by publishers in the identification and exchange of the content of a digital object, such as a journal article, web document, or other item of intellectual property.

(Digital Object Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

The Digital Imaging Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with support in high-resolution deconvolution microscopy, digital epi-fluorescence and brightfield microscopy, quantitative image analysis, cell microinjection and resulting biological analyses, and photo-production.

(Digital Imaging Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

Equipment used to analyze, enhance, interpret or display digital images.

(Digital Image Processing Equipment, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-invasive imaging method that uses a thermal sensitive camera to capture a digital image based on heat radiating from the body.

(Computerized Thermal Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

When we stopped the operation, he attended to Lucy, whilst I applied digital pressure to my own incision.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A device designed to convert analog signal to digital signal.

(Digitizer Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Material recorded in a format that requires an electronic device to view or modify, encompassing documents, images, multimedia, web pages, and other digital media.

(Electronic Content, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in the gene are associated with both oral-facial-digital syndrome type I and Simpson-Golabi-Behmel syndrome type 2.

(OFD1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A published specification for storing digital data that is freely distributed and available to be used and implemented by anyone.

(Open Specification Data Format, NCI Thesaurus)