digital

digital
—digitally, adv.
/dij"i tl/, adj.
1. of or pertaining to a digit or finger.
2. resembling a digit or finger.
3. manipulated with a finger or the fingertips: a digital switch.
4. displaying a readout in digital form: a digital speedometer.
5. having digits or digitlike parts.
6. of, pertaining to, or using data in the form of numerical digits.
7. Computers. involving or using numerical digits expressed in a scale of notation to represent discretely all variables occurring in a problem.
8. of, pertaining to, or using numerical calculations.
9. available in electronic form; readable and manipulable by computer.
n.
10. one of the keys or finger levers of keyboard instruments.
[1400-50; late ME < L digitalis, equiv. to digit(us) (see DIGIT) + -alis -AL1]

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(as used in expressions)
Digital Subscriber Line
digital versatile disc
digital video disc
Integrated Services Digital Network
Musical Instrument Digital Interface
digital to analog conversion

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