Etymology

digitize

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Today it means: To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits. Full definition →

English digit ← Middle English digit ← Latin digitus
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*deyḱ-der.?
  2. Latindigitus
  3. Middle Englishdigit
  4. Englishdigit
  5. English todaydigitize

From digit + -ize.

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