digital

Plural: digitals

Adjective

• displaying numbers rather than scale positions
  • "digital clock"
  • "digital readout"
• relating to or performed with the fingers
  • "digital examination"
• of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits
  • "digital computer"

Adj

• Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.
• Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
• Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.

Noun

• A key on a piano or organ, played with a finger.
• A digital option.
• Digital equipment or technology.
• Ellipsis of digital watch.
• Ellipsis of digital art.
• Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.
• A finger.

Examples

• digital clock
• digital computer
• digital examination
• digital palpation
• Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.
• He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.
• Though not a piano, the Scrabble board felt like a DIGITAL instrument, each letter a note.

Antonyms

analogue, analog, continuous, nondigital, undigital

Related Words

digitalis, digitality, digitate, digitigrade

Anagrams of digital