digit

See also: dígit

English

Etymology

From Middle English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”). Doublet of digitus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭ'jĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪt

Noun

The Egyptian hieroglyph for "digit" (ḏbꜥ, D50).

digit (plural digits)

1. (mathematics) The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined to represent base-ten numbers.

   The number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.

   Synonyms: place; figure (informal, usually in discussion of money)

2. (mathematics) A distinct symbol representing one of an arithmetic progression of numbers between 0 and the radix.

   Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.

3. (units of measure, astronomy) ¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.

   A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.

   Synonym: finger (obsolete)

4. (historical units of measure) A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot, now equivalent to about 1.9 cm.

   Synonyms: finger, fingerbreadth, fingersbreadth

5. (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.
7. (anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.

   Hyponyms: finger, thumb, toe

   • 2018, Shiv Kotecha, The Switch, United States: Wonder, →ISBN, page 144:

     Jai grabbed Andrew’s shoulders with the same three digits he had used to grab the ancient doubter’s skull and spun him around.

8. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.
   • 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates:

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

9. (geometry, rare, obsolete) Synonym of degree: ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle.

Coordinate terms

• (unit of length): palm, span, handspan, cubit, fathom

Derived terms

• binary digit
• check digit
• digital
• digit counter
• digitize
• digit number (obsolete)
• digit pulse
• digit sum
• double-digit
• double digits
• index digit
• significant digit
• single-digit salute

 

Related terms

• digits

Translations

finger or toe

• Arabic: إِصْبَع‎ (ar) m (ʔiṣbaʕ)
• Armenian: մատ (hy) (mat)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܸܒܥܬܵܐ‎ f (ṣibʿta)
• Belarusian: па́лец m (páljec)
• Bengali: আঙুল (bn) (aṅul), (finger) হাতের আঙুল (hater aṅul), (toe) পায়ের আঙুল (paẏer aṅul)
• Bulgarian: пръст (bg) m (prǎst)
• Burmese: လက်ချောင်း (my) (lakhkyaung:)
• Catalan: dit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 手指 (zh) (shǒuzhǐ) (finger), 腳趾／脚趾 (zh) (jiǎozhǐ) (toe)

• Czech: prst (cs) m
• Danish: finger (da) c (finger), tå (da) c (toe)
• Dolgan: чөмүйэ (çömüye)
• Dutch: vinger (nl) m (finger), teen (nl) m (toe)
• Egyptian: (ḏbꜥ) (finger, also toe by late period)
• Finnish: sormi (fi) (finger), varvas (fi) (toe)
• French: doigt (fr) m (finger), orteil (fr) m (toe)
• Galician: dedo (gl) m
• German: Finger (de) (finger), Zeh (de) (toe)
• Greek: δάκτυλο (el) n (dáktylo)

  Ancient: δάκτυλος m (dáktulos)

• Hungarian: ujj (hu)
• Indonesian: jari (id)
• Interlingua: digito
• Japanese: 指 (ja) (ゆび, yubi)
• Khmer: ម្រាម (km) (mriəm)
• Korean: 손가락 (ko) (son'garak) (finger), 발가락 (ko) (balgarak) (toe)
• Lao: ນີ້ວ (nīu)
• Latin: digitus (la) m
• Macedonian: прст m (prst)
• Malay: jari (ms)
• Manchu: ᠰᡳᠮᡥᡠᠨ (simhun), ᡧᡠᠮᡥᡠᠨ (šumhun)
• Norwegian: finger (no) (finger), tå (no) (toe)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: прьстъ m (prĭstŭ)

  Glagolitic: ⱂⱃⱐⱄⱅⱏ m (prĭstŭ)

• Old East Slavic: пальць m (palĭcĭ), пьрстъ m (pĭrstŭ)
• Persian: انگشت‎ (fa) (angošt)
• Polish: palec (pl) m
• Portuguese: dígito (pt), dedo (pt)
• Romanian: deget (ro) n
• Russian: па́лец (ru) m (pálec), перст (ru) m (perst) (dated or poetic)
• Sanskrit: अङ्गुली (sa) f (aṅgulī), अङ्गुरि (sa) f (aṅguri)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пр̏ст m

  Roman: pȑst (sh) m

• Slovak: prst (sk) m
• Slovene: prst (sl) m
• Spanish: dedo (es) m
• Swedish: finger (sv) (finger), tå (sv) (toe)
• Thai: นิ้ว (th) (níu)
• Turkish: parmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: па́лець (uk) m (pálecʹ)
• Vietnamese: ngón (vi)
• Walloon: doet (wa) m (finger), årtea (wa) m (toe), doye f (toe)
• Yakut: тарбах (tarbaq)
• Esperanto: fingro (eo)

numeral

• Arabic: رَقْم‎ (ar) m (raqm)
• Armenian: թվանշան (hy) (tʿvanšan)
• Azerbaijani: rəqəm (az)
• Belarusian: цы́фра f (cýfra), лі́чба f (líčba)
• Bulgarian: ци́фра (bg) f (cífra)
• Burmese: ဂဏန်း (my) (ga.nan:)
• Catalan: xifra (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 數字／数字 (zh) (shùzì)

• Czech: číslice (cs) f
• Danish: ciffer (da) n
• Dutch: cijfer (nl) n
• Esperanto: cifero
• Finnish: numero (fi)
• French: chiffre (fr) m
• German: Ziffer (de) f, Stelle (de)
• Greek: ψηφίο (el) n (psifío), αριθμός (el) m (arithmós)
• Hebrew: סִפְרָה‎ (he) f (sifrá)
• Hungarian: számjegy (hu)
• Icelandic: tala (is), tölustafur (is)
• Ido: cifro (io)
• Interlingua: digito, cifra
• Irish: figiúr m
• Italian: cifra (it)
• Japanese: 数字 (ja) (すうじ, sūji)
• Khmer: លេខ (km) (leek), ខ្ទង់ (km) (khtŭəng)
• Korean: 숫자(數字) (ko) (sutja)
• Kyrgyz: санарип (sanarip)
• Lao: ເລກ (lēk)
• Macedonian: цифра f (cifra)
• Malayalam: അക്കം (ml) (akkaṃ)
• Manx: bun-earroo m
• Maori: mati
• Middle English: digit
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: siffer (no) n

  Nynorsk: siffer n

• Persian: رقم‎ (fa) (raqam)
• 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 (sh) f

• Slovak: číslica (sk) f
• Slovene: številka f, števka f
• Spanish: dígito (es) m, cifra (es) f
• Swedish: siffra (sv)
• Tagalog: tambilang
• Tajik: рақам (tg) (raqam)
• Telugu: అంకె (te) (aṅke)
• Thai: เลข (th) (lêek)
• Turkish: rakam (tr)
• Ukrainian: ци́фра (uk) f (cýfra)
• Vietnamese: chữ số (vi)

unit of length

• Egyptian: (ḏbꜥ)
• French: doigt (fr) m
• Hungarian: ujj (hu)
• Latin: digitus (la)
• Middle English: fynger
• Persian: انگشت‎ (fa)
• Portuguese: dedo (pt) m
• Spanish: dedo (es) m

Verb

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

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

References

• "digit, n. and adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

French

Etymology

From English digit, from digitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.ʒit/

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Noun

digit m (plural digits)

1. digit (number from 0-9)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• digite, digitus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin digitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdidʒit/, /ˈdidʒitus/

Noun

digit (plural digitys)

1. digit (Arabic numeral)

Descendants

• English: digit

References

• “diǧit, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-21.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”). Doublet of deget.

Noun

digit m (plural digiți)

1. digit

Declension

Declension of digit

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) digit	digitul	(niște) digiți	digiții
genitive/dative	(unui) digit	digitului	(unor) digiți	digiților
vocative	digitule		digiților