Dictionary

digitize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtɑez/ (Australia)
• /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtaɪz/ (UK)
• /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪˌtaɪz/ (Canada, General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-der.? Latin digitusbor. Middle English digit English digit Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English digitize From digit + -ize.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To 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 302:
   • 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 187:
2. To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To finger.
   • to digitize a pen

Forms

Deriveds

digitizability · digitizer · redigitize · digitized target · digitizable

Relateds

datafy · digitization

Synonyms

digitalize

Translations (29)

cmn 數字化 /数字化 (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · fr numériser (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · hu digitalizál (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · es digitizar (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · sh дигитализовати (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · mk дигитализира (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · ru оцифро́вывать (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · sv digitalisera (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · pt digitalizar (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · de digitalisieren (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · fi digitalisoida (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · ar رَقْمَنَة (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · ru оцифрова́ть (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · pl zdygitalizować (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · fi digitoida (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · vi số hóa (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · pl dygitalizować (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · ja 電子化する (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · ro digitaliza (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · gl dixitalizar (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · fr digitaliser (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · ja デジタル化する (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · es digitalizar (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · nl digitaliseren (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · it digitalizzare (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · el ψηφιοποιώ (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · cs digitalizovat (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · ja 数値化する (represent something as a sequence of binary digits) · ca digitalitzar (represent something as a sequence of binary digits)