Meanings
present singular third person digitalizes · participle present digitalizing · participle past digitalized · past digitalized · alternative digitalise
- transitivecomputingSynonym of digitize.
How to lawfully digitalize resources has become the principal issue in constructing digital libraries. To digitalize resources means to transform a document into digital format, which only adds a mode of using the resources but does not produce a new one.
2004, Tom Mendina, Johannes J. Britz, editors, Information Ethics in the Electronic Age […] , McFarland, →ISBN, page 89Synonyms: digitize
- medicineTo administer digitalis.
The dosage should be sufficient to produce satisfactory digitalization but it is our impression that it is less hazardous to digitalize with moderate rapidity than by using a massive dose.
1951 January, Irving S. Wright, “The treatment of coronary thrombosis with myocardial infarction”, in Veterans Administration Technical Bulletins (10), volume IV, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 3
Synonyms & antonyms
verbSynonym of digitize.
More synonyms by meaning
verbput into digital form, as for use in a computer
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From digital + -ize (“to make”) or digitalis + -ize.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
digitalize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/digitalize
“digitalize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/digitalize. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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