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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To put (data, for example) into digital form.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To finger; handle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To finger.
  • transitive verb (Computers) To convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in numbers or in binary notation. The original signal before digitization is usually in analog form.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits
  • verb To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value
  • verb obsolete To finger.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb put into digital form, as for use in a computer

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digit +‎ -ize

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