Meanings
present singular third person digitizes · participle present digitizing · participle past digitized · past digitized · alternative digitise · alternative digitilize
- transitivecomputingTo represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.
When you digitize a visual image, you are translating it into digital signals so that it can be broken down into pixels and loaded into the computer.
2000, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, Fundamental Photoshop 5.5, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 3021 more example
According to press releases and university librarians, Google plans to digitize and make available through its Google Books service approximately 15 million volumes within a decade.
2013, Nihar K. Patra, editor, Progressive Trends in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 187Synonyms: digitalize
- To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.
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
- Proto-Indo-European*deyḱ-der.?
- Latindigitus
- Middle Englishdigit
- Englishdigit
- Englishdigitize
Translations
Arabic رَقْمَنَة
- رَقْمَنَة (raqmana)represent something as a sequence of binary digits
Catalan digitalitzar
- digitalitzarrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Chinese Mandarin 數字化 /数字化
- 數字化 /数字化 (shùzìhuà)represent something as a sequence of binary digits
Czech digitalizovat
- digitalizovatrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Dutch digitaliseren
- digitaliserenrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Finnish digitalisoida, digitoida
- digitalisoidarepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
- digitoidarepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
French numériser, digitaliser
- numériserrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
- digitaliserrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
German digitalisieren
- digitalisierenrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Greek ψηφιοποιώ
- ψηφιοποιώ (psifiopoió)represent something as a sequence of binary digits
Hungarian digitalizál
- digitalizálrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Italian digitalizzare
- digitalizzarerepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Japanese 電子化する, デジタル化する
- 電子化する (denshika suru)represent something as a sequence of binary digits
- デジタル化する (dejitaruka suru)represent something as a sequence of binary digits
- 数値化する (sūchika suru)represent something as a sequence of binary digits
Polish dygitalizować, zdygitalizować
- dygitalizowaćrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
- zdygitalizowaćrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Portuguese digitalizar
- digitalizarrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Romanian digitaliza
- digitalizarepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Russian оцифро́вывать, оцифрова́ть
- оцифро́вывать (ocifróvyvatʹ)represent something as a sequence of binary digits
- оцифрова́ть (ocifrovátʹ)represent something as a sequence of binary digits
Spanish digitalizar, digitizar
- digitalizarrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
- digitizarrepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Swedish digitalisera
- digitaliserarepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Vietnamese số hóa
- số hóarepresent something as a sequence of binary digits
Cite this entry
digitize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/digitize
“digitize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/digitize. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “digitize,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/digitize.
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