digital

noun

(uncountable) Digital equipment or technology.

(finance) A digital option.

(music) Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.

(colloquial, humorous) A finger.

Ellipsis of digital watch. [A watch (wristwatch or pocket watch), usually electronic, whose watch face displays time in the form of numbers (a digital display, rather than by a dial and hands (traditional clock face).]

(informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of digital art. [Art produced using computer technology, as opposed to traditional art.]

adjective

Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.

Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.

Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger.

Roots

digitusdigit- · Latin · finger

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