digitize

English

Alternative forms

• digitise
• digitilize

Etymology

digit +‎ -ize

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪtaɪz/

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
2. To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value
3. (transitive, obsolete) To finger.

   to digitize a pen

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Thomas Browne to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (represent in binary): digitalize

Related terms

• digitization
• digitisation

Translations

represent something as a sequence of binary digits

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 數字化 (zh), 数字化 (zh) (shùzìhuà)

• Czech: digitalizovat (cs)
• Finnish: digitalisoida (fi), digitoida (fi)
• French: numériser (fr), digitaliser (fr)
• Galician: dixitalizar
• German: digitalisieren (de)
• Greek: ψηφιοποιώ (el) (psifiopoió)

• Hungarian: digitalizál (hu)
• Italian: digitalizzare (it)
• Portuguese: digitalizar (pt)
• Romanian: digitaliza (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: дигитализовати (digitalizovati)
• Spanish: digitalizar (es)
• Swedish: digitalisera (sv)