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digitize, v.|ˈdɪdʒɪtaɪz|
[f. digit + -ize.]
1. trans. To manipulate or treat in some way with the fingers: to finger; to point at or count with the fingers. rare.
a1704T. Brown Wks. (1760) II. 211 (D.), None but the devil, besides yourself, could have digitiz'd a pen after so scurrilous a manner. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Digitize, to point to with the finger. 1823Hone Anc. Myst. 266 The sempstresses, who were very nicely digitising and pleating turnovers.
2. To convert (a continuously variable quantity) into a sequence of digits, generally for use in a digital computer, etc.; to represent in digital form. So ˈdigitized ppl. a., ˈdigitizing vbl. n.
1953Proc. Inst. Radio Engin. XLI. 1456/2 It is..desirable to digitize the analog input signals as near to the system full scale as possible. 1957Electronic Engin. XXIX. 568/2 Digitizing an analogue quantity makes the basic assumption that it may adequately be represented by a sufficient number of discreet intervals. 1959Times Rev. Industry Aug. 24/3 All analogue quantities generated..are digitized. 1963Engineering 8 Nov. 604/3 After digitising, the information is stored in 10 bit binary form. 1965Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) iv. 166 The slight discrepancy of the digitized wave. 1971Sci. Amer. Feb. 81/3 We shall assume that our slab is a square and that it has been digitized into 64 x, y values or mesh points. |