"digitize" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈdɪdʒɪtaɪz/ [UK] Forms: digitizes [present, singular, third-person], digitizing [participle, present], digitized [participle, past], digitized [past]
Etymology: digit + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|digit|ize}} digit + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} digitize (third-person singular simple present digitizes, present participle digitizing, simple past and past participle digitized)
  1. (transitive, computing) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: digitalize Translations (represent something as a sequence of binary digits): رَقْمَنَة (raqmana) [feminine] (Arabic), digitalitzar (Catalan), 數字化 (Chinese Mandarin), 数字化 (shùzìhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), digitalizovat (Czech), digitaliseren (Dutch), digitalisoida (Finnish), digitoida (Finnish), numériser (French), digitaliser [informal] (French), dixitalizar (Galician), digitalisieren (German), ψηφιοποιώ (psifiopoió) (Greek), digitalizál (Hungarian), digitalizzare (Italian), 電子化する (denshika suru) (Japanese), デジタル化する (dejitaruka suru) (Japanese), 数値化する (sūchika suru) (Japanese), digitalizar (Portuguese), digitaliza (Romanian), оцифро́вывать (ocifróvyvatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), оцифрова́ть (ocifrovátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), дигитализовати (digitalizovati) (Serbo-Croatian), digitalizar (Spanish), digitalisera (Swedish), số hóa (alt: 數化) (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-digitize-en-verb-tletZsNv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 78 19 3 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ize: 58 27 15 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'represent something as a sequence of binary digits': 95 3 2
  2. To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
    Sense id: en-digitize-en-verb-G6DHRl6N
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To finger. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-digitize-en-verb-vxtPj3VI
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: digitise, digitilize Derived forms: digitized target Related terms: digitization, datafy

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