digit

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) digitus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭ'jĭt, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪt/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪt

Noun

digit (plural digits)

1. A finger or toe.
   • Owen

     The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.

2. A numeral that can be combined with others to write larger numbers, and that cannot itself be split into other numerals.

   The digits of the decimal number system are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, and those in the hexadecimal number system are those in the decimal system along with A, B, C, D, E and F.

   The number 2307 has four digits: the thousands digit is 2; the hundreds digit is 3; the tens digit is 0; and the units digit is 7.

3. (deprecated template usage) (slang, in the plural) One's phone number.

   That girl likes me — she gave me her digits.

4. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three quarters of an inch.
5. (deprecated template usage) (astronomy) A twelfth of the diameter of the Sun or Moon; used to express the quantity of an eclipse.

   An eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.

Translations

finger or toe

• Bengali: আঙুল (angul), (finger) হাতের আঙুল (hater angul), (toe) পায়ের আঙুল (paẏer angul)
• Bulgarian: пръст (bg) m (prǎst)
• Catalan: dit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: prst (cs) m
• Dutch: vinger (nl) m (finger), teen (nl) m (toe)
• Finnish: sormi (fi) (finger), varvas (fi) (toe)
• French: doigt (fr) m (finger), orteil (fr) m (toe)
• German: Finger (de) (finger), Zeh (de) (toe)
• Greek: δάκτυλο (el) n (dáktylo)
• Hungarian: ujj (hu)
• Indonesian: jari (id)
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• Interlingua: digito
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: digitus (la) m
• Malay: jari
• Norwegian: finger (no) (finger), tå (no) (toe)
• Polish: palec (pl)
• Portuguese: dígito (pt), dedo (pt)
• Romanian: deget (ro) n
• Russian: па́лец (ru) m (pálec), перст (ru) m (perst) (dated or poetic)
• Spanish: dedo (es) m
• Swedish: finger (sv) (finger), tå (sv) (toe)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: parmak (tr)

numeral

• Arabic: رقم m (raqam, raqm)
• Armenian: թվանշան (tʻvanšan)
• Bulgarian: цифра (bg) f (cifra)
• Catalan: xifra (ca) f
• Czech: číslice (cs) f
• Danish: ciffer (da)
• Dutch: cijfer (nl) n
• Esperanto: cifero
• Finnish: numero (fi)
• French: chiffre (fr) m
• German: Ziffer (de) f
• Greek: ψηφίο (el) n (psifío), αριθμός (el) m (arithmós)
• Hebrew: ספרה (he) f (sifra)
• Hungarian: számjegy (hu)
• Icelandic: tala (is), tölustafur (is)
• Ido: cifro (io)
• Interlingua: digito, cifra
• Japanese: 数字 (ja) (すうじ, sūji)
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• Malayalam: അക്കം (ml) (akkaṁ)
• Manx: bun-earroo m
• Norwegian: siffer (no)
• Persian: رقم (fa)
• Polish: cyfra (pl)
• Portuguese: dígito (pt) m, algarismo (pt) m
• Romanian: cifră (ro) f
• Russian: ци́фра (ru) f (cífra)
• Scottish Gaelic: figear m
• Serbo-Croatian: znamenka (sh)

  Cyrillic: цифра f

  Latin: cifra f

• Spanish: dígito (es) m, cifra (es) f
• Swedish: siffra (sv)
• Tajik: рақам (raqam)
• Telugu: అంకె (te) (aṅke)
• Turkish: rakam (tr)

slang: one's phone number

• Bulgarian: телефон m (telefon)
• Danish: nummer
• Dutch: nummer (nl) n
• Finnish: numero (fi)
• German: Nummer (de)
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• Greek: νούμερο (el) n (noúmero)
• Hungarian: szám (hu)
• Russian: но́мер (ru) m (nómer), телефо́н (ru) m (telefón)
• Swedish: nummer (sv)
• Turkish: numara (tr)

Derived terms

• digital
• digitize

Verb

digit (third-person singular simple present digits, present participle digiting, simple past and past participle digited)

1. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To point at or point out with the finger.