English

Alternative forms

• digitise
• digitilize

Verb

digitize ‎(third-person singular simple present digitizes, present participle digitizing, simple past and past participle digitized)

1. (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. (obsolete) To finger.

   to digitize a pen

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Synonyms

• (represent in binary): digitalize

Related terms

• digitization
• digitisation

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