digitn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈdɪdʒɪt/, U.S.

/ˈdɪdʒᵻt/

Forms: Middle English 1600s digite, Middle English– digit, 1500s dygette, 1500s–1600s diget, 1600s dyget.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin digitus.

Etymology: < classical Latin digitus finger, finger's breadth, in post-classical Latin also each of the numerals below ten (from 12th cent. in British sources), of uncertain origin; probably < a variant of the same Indo-European base as tee v.²

A. n.

a. A whole number less than ten; any of the nine or (including zero) ten Arabic numerals representing these, a series of which is used to represent other numbers in decimal notation. Cf. article n. 9.Also with prefixed numeral forming an attributive phrase: used to designate the number of digits comprising a decimal number.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > figure

rimeeOE

figure?c1225

numberc1300

digit?a1400

digitalc1450

cipher1530

term1552

terminus?a1560

significant figure1614

small figuresa1652

numeral1654

monasa1690

binary digit1796

nomial1828

supplement1868

?a1400 in J. O. Halliwell Rara Mathematica (1839) 30 (MED) Somme is callyd nombre of digitys for alle ben digitys that ben withine ten as ix, viii, vii, vi, v, iv, iii, ii, i.

c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 33 (MED) Componede or medlede is that nombre that is come of a digite and of an article.

1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. B.vi A dyget is any number vnder 10.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. iv. 186 On the left [hand] they accounted their digits and articulate numbers unto an hundred, on the right hand hundreds & thousands.

a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 5 Integers are..divided into Digits, Articles, and mixt numbers.

1730 D. Ayres Arithmetick made Easier (ed. 2) i. 7 All Numbers are composed of these Nine Digits, viz. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9, and 0 Cypher.

1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. xxxvi. 264 The nine digits in Arithmetic.

1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 4 The Numbers in Arithmetic are expressed by the..ten digits, or Arabic numeral figures.

1881 Educ. Times 1 Jan. 24/2 Six-digit number N.

1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 56 The seven..may be in error by one or even two digits.

1948 Proc. Symp. Large-scale Digital Calculating Machinery 1947 69 The machine handles ten-digit numbers expressed in the decimal system.

1978 P. Roth Professor of Desire 188 Eight from one doesn't go, so we must borrow once from the preceding digit; eight from eleven is three.

2007 Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 31/1 23-obsessed Walter Sparrow..keeps totting up the evidence that his own life, and all that counts in the cosmos is somehow born of these two digits.

b. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). In plural. A telephone number.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > number

number1879

telephone number1880

home number1898

phone number1911

silent number1913

wrong number1930

4111931

9991937

area code1946

9111968

800 number1971

cell number1988

0800 number1988

digit1989

1989 J. T. Smith et al. Big Ole Butt (song, perf. ‘LL Cool J’) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 189 To make a long story short, I got the digits Calls her on my car phone and paid her a visit.

1994 A. Heckerling Clueless (film script, first shooting draft) (O.E.D. Archive) Green Revised Pages 29 Mr. Hall takes out a pen and writes something. DIONNE. Look, he's getting her digits!

1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 283 I found Pauline's digits in my yellow suit and gave her a call. A deep male voice answered.

2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 27 July (Styles section) 4/3 ‘I gotta get your digits,’ Mr. Thomas said. ‘I don't even know my own number!’ Ms. Spalding answered.

2. Astronomy. One twelfth of the diameter of the sun or moon, used esp. as a unit to express the magnitude of an eclipse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > sun > [noun] > disc, face > digit

point?c1400

finger1561

prick1561

punct1561

digit1591

the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [noun] > digit

point?c1400

finger1561

prick1561

punct1561

scruple1633

digit1807

1591 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Astrol. Prognostication sig. B Wheras the Sun is darkned but by digits, and that vpon y^e south points.

1648 S. Danforth Almanack 1 The whole duration of the eclipse will be 3 hours..and the digits eclipsed about 9.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 66 We..Can calculate how long th' eclipse endur'd, Who interpos'd, what digits were obscur'd.

1716 J. Perry State of Russia 210 [The eclipse] would be within a Digit or two of being total.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xliv. 530 In speaking of the magnitude of the part of the sun or moon eclipses, it is usual to consider the whole diameter as divided into 12 parts, called digits.

1879 R. A. Proctor Rough Ways (1880) 9 The ring was about a digit in breadth.

1916 Salt Lake Tribune 19 Jan. 2/3 Partial eclipse of the moon..size, 1.6 digits, a digit being the twelfth part of the moon's diameter.

1968 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 27 128 A five-digit eclipse..means that five twelfths of the eclipsed luminary's apparent disk has been darkened.

3. A unit of length, approximately equal to the breadth of a finger, although varying in size according to period and locality; three-quarters of an inch. Also: †an inch (obsolete).The Roman digitus was ¹/ ₁₆ of a foot (0·728 of an inch, 18·5 mm).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > breadth of finger

fingereOE

fingermealc1175

finger breadtha1535

digit1625

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. viii. 195 A Cubit [contains], according to Heron, a Foot and halfe, or 24 Digits.

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 108 The Inch (or digit,) the Palme, the Foote..are (all) Measures, which wee carry in our Bodie.

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccliv, in Poems (1878) IV. 164 'Tis..farre beyond our Skill To measure out by Digits, Harrie's fame.

1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) ii. 5 When..the Mercury in the Tube..descends to the height of 29 Digits (I take Digits for Inches throughout all this Tract).

1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant (1757) ii. ii. 381 The digit of Kalkasendas is equal to a space taken up by seven barley corns, placed side-ways; whereas six is the measure according to Golius's author.

1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iii. xx. 321 A certain round plate three or four digits (or between two and three inches) thick.

1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress 161 The Egyptian cubit..was divided into digits, which were finger-breadths.

1925 D. E. Smith Hist. Math. II. ix. ii. 641 The cubit was six palms, or twenty-four digits, the Roman foot was 13½ digits, and the fathom was the length of the extended arms.

1954 Folk-lore 65 136 4 digits = 1 palm (across middle of fingers).

1988 H. A. Klein Sci. Measurem. iv. 55 The nail (0.75 inch) was the English counterpart of a most important Roman length unit, the digit (digitus ), based on finger breadth, usually close to ¾ inch or 1.9 centimeter in modern terms.

a. A person's finger (or thumb); a toe.In later use chiefly in Anatomy and in colloquial (esp. humorous) contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > [noun]

digit1644

digital1822

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia Aii^v Where every Digit dictates and doth reach Unto our sense a mouth-excelling speech.

1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. Postscr. 10 They had dismembred one hand of all its digits.

1829 in J. S. Farmer Musa Pedestris (1964) 110 On his digit he sported a ring.

1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 832/1 The range of movement at the radio-ulnar joints enables us..to pronate the hand and fore-arm,..so as to make the thumb the innermost digit.

1898 H. J. Waring Man. Operative Surg. xxv. 533 An incision is then made round half the circumference of the digit on its dorsal aspect.

1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 230/1 He jams his digits into a gallipot of scarlet, and, being color-blind, rejoices at the result.

1988 Seminars Nucl. Med. 18 263/1 (caption) Three of the four amputated digits were subsequently reimplanted.

2007 Stuff July 16/2 TomTom has stretched the screen.., so now it's..easier to prod with a digit shaped like a Lincolnshire banger.

b. Zoology. An animal's toe. Also: any bone or part homologous with a toe in the limb of a tetrapod. Cf. phalange n.¹ 2a.The five digits of the ancestral pentadactyl limb are often reduced in number.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > digit

toec1386

forceps1661

digit1756

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iv. 477 The two outward digits are generally webbed a little at the base.

1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 283 We find among reptiles, all the combinations of digits, from five to one, taken between two pairs of hands or claws.

1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 219 In the marine chelonia the digits of both limbs are elongated.

1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 285 The special organ of touch is the skin, above all the skin of the muzzle, tongue, and digits.

1925 R. S. Lull Ways of Life iv. 105 There has been in the past an increase in the number of digits until the standard number five was attained.

1960 Evolution 14 8/2 The first digit of the wing..resembles very closely the digits of the foot in size, shape and function.

1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) i. iii. 29/2 These little monkeys..are notable for..the sharp, squirrel-like claws on all their digits except the great toe.

†5. Geometry. = degree n. 9a. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [noun] > degree

degreec1386

gree1423

grade?c1510

digit1653

1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 35 By their Calculation it was but eleven digits, and one fourth, which I conceiv to be fifteen minutes..a digit consisting of sixty minutes.

B. adj.

attributive. Designating a whole number less than ten. Now rare.In quot. 1610 confused with articulate adj. 5.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures

digit1539

numeral1577

numerical1647

numeric1825

figurate1830

1539 Introd. lerne for to recken with Pen sig. a.b Thou muste note that there be in algorisme thre maner of numbers, Diget number, Artycle, and Composte. The dygette nomber, is all maner of numbres, whiche are under.x.as these. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.

1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories xxxii. 181 The first, and cheif, is the number of six, which..decreaseth in euery rancke to the base point, and produceth an Odde,..which no other articulate number can effect... The first of digit numbers is Ten.]

1679 R. Chamberlain Arithmetick v. 75 By this way of multiplying your Divisor by the nine digit Numbers, you may, First observe to be very useful, not only in this way of dividing downward, but in all other ways of Division.

?1735 W. Mason La Plume volante (ed. 5) 65 All Digit Numbers are from One to Nine.

1791 Scriptores Logarithmici II. 46 Several logarithms for digit numbers, and mixt numbers.

1886 Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan June 39 The Chinese and Japanese in naming the ‘teens’ put the larger number, the ten, first; whereas we put the digit number first.

1917 T. Lindquist Mod. Arithm. Methods & Probl. xi. 105 That case in subtraction in which a digit number in the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one in the minuend.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense A. 1a), esp. with reference to computers, calculators, or other devices which store, display, or process digits, as digit counter, digit pulse, etc.

ΚΠ

1909 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 20 517 In another kind of series, the ‘digit pattern’, the numerals 2 to 9 were substituted for the letters.

1921 C. D. Lake U.S. Patent 1,372,965 2/2 If the hole in the card represents the numeral 5, the register wheel will be turned five digit spaces.

1959 Economist 20 June 1110/2 In the search for higher computer speeds, one obvious approach was to raise the ‘digit frequency’ or pulse rate of the machine.

1963 I. H. Gould & F. Ellis Digital Computer Technol. vi. 50 It is not uncommon to speak of pulses which represent unit signals as ‘digit pulses’.

2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Apr. 24 Back at the depot, they replenish their tanks, shaking their heads in disgust as the pumps' rusty digit counters spin.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	digit
释义	digitn.adj. Brit. /ˈdɪdʒɪt/, U.S. /ˈdɪdʒᵻt/ Forms: Middle English 1600s digite, Middle English– digit, 1500s dygette, 1500s–1600s diget, 1600s dyget. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin digitus. Etymology: < classical Latin digitus finger, finger's breadth, in post-classical Latin also each of the numerals below ten (from 12th cent. in British sources), of uncertain origin; probably < a variant of the same Indo-European base as tee v.² A. n. 1. a. A whole number less than ten; any of the nine or (including zero) ten Arabic numerals representing these, a series of which is used to represent other numbers in decimal notation. Cf. article n. 9.Also with prefixed numeral forming an attributive phrase: used to designate the number of digits comprising a decimal number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [noun] > figure rimeeOE figure?c1225 numberc1300 digit?a1400 digitalc1450 cipher1530 term1552 terminus?a1560 significant figure1614 small figuresa1652 numeral1654 monasa1690 binary digit1796 nomial1828 supplement1868 ?a1400 in J. O. Halliwell Rara Mathematica (1839) 30 (MED) Somme is callyd nombre of digitys for alle ben digitys that ben withine ten as ix, viii, vii, vi, v, iv, iii, ii, i. c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 33 (MED) Componede or medlede is that nombre that is come of a digite and of an article. 1543 R. Record Ground of Artes i. sig. B.vi A dyget is any number vnder 10. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. iv. 186 On the left [hand] they accounted their digits and articulate numbers unto an hundred, on the right hand hundreds & thousands. View more context for this quotation a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 5 Integers are..divided into Digits, Articles, and mixt numbers. 1730 D. Ayres Arithmetick made Easier (ed. 2) i. 7 All Numbers are composed of these Nine Digits, viz. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 9, and 0 Cypher. 1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. xxxvi. 264 The nine digits in Arithmetic. 1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 4 The Numbers in Arithmetic are expressed by the..ten digits, or Arabic numeral figures. 1881 Educ. Times 1 Jan. 24/2 Six-digit number N. 1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 56 The seven..may be in error by one or even two digits. 1948 Proc. Symp. Large-scale Digital Calculating Machinery 1947 69 The machine handles ten-digit numbers expressed in the decimal system. 1978 P. Roth Professor of Desire 188 Eight from one doesn't go, so we must borrow once from the preceding digit; eight from eleven is three. 2007 Daily Tel. 23 Feb. 31/1 23-obsessed Walter Sparrow..keeps totting up the evidence that his own life, and all that counts in the cosmos is somehow born of these two digits. b. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). In plural. A telephone number. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > number number1879 telephone number1880 home number1898 phone number1911 silent number1913 wrong number1930 4111931 9991937 area code1946 9111968 800 number1971 cell number1988 0800 number1988 digit1989 1989 J. T. Smith et al. Big Ole Butt (song, perf. ‘LL Cool J’) in L. A. Stanley Rap: the Lyrics (1992) 189 To make a long story short, I got the digits Calls her on my car phone and paid her a visit. 1994 A. Heckerling Clueless (film script, first shooting draft) (O.E.D. Archive) Green Revised Pages 29 Mr. Hall takes out a pen and writes something. DIONNE. Look, he's getting her digits! 1997 ‘Q’ Deadmeat 283 I found Pauline's digits in my yellow suit and gave her a call. A deep male voice answered. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 27 July (Styles section) 4/3 ‘I gotta get your digits,’ Mr. Thomas said. ‘I don't even know my own number!’ Ms. Spalding answered. 2. Astronomy. One twelfth of the diameter of the sun or moon, used esp. as a unit to express the magnitude of an eclipse. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > sun > [noun] > disc, face > digit point?c1400 finger1561 prick1561 punct1561 digit1591 the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > [noun] > digit point?c1400 finger1561 prick1561 punct1561 scruple1633 digit1807 1591 ‘A. Foulweather’ Wonderfull Astrol. Prognostication sig. B Wheras the Sun is darkned but by digits, and that vpon y^e south points. 1648 S. Danforth Almanack 1 The whole duration of the eclipse will be 3 hours..and the digits eclipsed about 9. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 66 We..Can calculate how long th' eclipse endur'd, Who interpos'd, what digits were obscur'd. 1716 J. Perry State of Russia 210 [The eclipse] would be within a Digit or two of being total. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xliv. 530 In speaking of the magnitude of the part of the sun or moon eclipses, it is usual to consider the whole diameter as divided into 12 parts, called digits. 1879 R. A. Proctor Rough Ways (1880) 9 The ring was about a digit in breadth. 1916 Salt Lake Tribune 19 Jan. 2/3 Partial eclipse of the moon..size, 1.6 digits, a digit being the twelfth part of the moon's diameter. 1968 Jrnl. Near Eastern Stud. 27 128 A five-digit eclipse..means that five twelfths of the eclipsed luminary's apparent disk has been darkened. 3. A unit of length, approximately equal to the breadth of a finger, although varying in size according to period and locality; three-quarters of an inch. Also: †an inch (obsolete).The Roman digitus was ¹/ ₁₆ of a foot (0·728 of an inch, 18·5 mm). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > breadth of finger fingereOE fingermealc1175 finger breadtha1535 digit1625 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. viii. 195 A Cubit [contains], according to Heron, a Foot and halfe, or 24 Digits. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 108 The Inch (or digit,) the Palme, the Foote..are (all) Measures, which wee carry in our Bodie. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccliv, in Poems (1878) IV. 164 'Tis..farre beyond our Skill To measure out by Digits, Harrie's fame. 1669 R. Boyle Contin. New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) ii. 5 When..the Mercury in the Tube..descends to the height of 29 Digits (I take Digits for Inches throughout all this Tract). 1738 T. Shaw Trav. Barbary & Levant (1757) ii. ii. 381 The digit of Kalkasendas is equal to a space taken up by seven barley corns, placed side-ways; whereas six is the measure according to Golius's author. 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca iii. xx. 321 A certain round plate three or four digits (or between two and three inches) thick. 1864 H. Spencer Illustr. Progress 161 The Egyptian cubit..was divided into digits, which were finger-breadths. 1925 D. E. Smith Hist. Math. II. ix. ii. 641 The cubit was six palms, or twenty-four digits, the Roman foot was 13½ digits, and the fathom was the length of the extended arms. 1954 Folk-lore 65 136 4 digits = 1 palm (across middle of fingers). 1988 H. A. Klein Sci. Measurem. iv. 55 The nail (0.75 inch) was the English counterpart of a most important Roman length unit, the digit (digitus ), based on finger breadth, usually close to ¾ inch or 1.9 centimeter in modern terms. 4. a. A person's finger (or thumb); a toe.In later use chiefly in Anatomy and in colloquial (esp. humorous) contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > digit > [noun] digit1644 digital1822 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia Aii^v Where every Digit dictates and doth reach Unto our sense a mouth-excelling speech. 1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. Postscr. 10 They had dismembred one hand of all its digits. 1829 in J. S. Farmer Musa Pedestris (1964) 110 On his digit he sported a ring. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 832/1 The range of movement at the radio-ulnar joints enables us..to pronate the hand and fore-arm,..so as to make the thumb the innermost digit. 1898 H. J. Waring Man. Operative Surg. xxv. 533 An incision is then made round half the circumference of the digit on its dorsal aspect. 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 230/1 He jams his digits into a gallipot of scarlet, and, being color-blind, rejoices at the result. 1988 Seminars Nucl. Med. 18 263/1 (caption) Three of the four amputated digits were subsequently reimplanted. 2007 Stuff July 16/2 TomTom has stretched the screen.., so now it's..easier to prod with a digit shaped like a Lincolnshire banger. b. Zoology. An animal's toe. Also: any bone or part homologous with a toe in the limb of a tetrapod. Cf. phalange n.¹ 2a.The five digits of the ancestral pentadactyl limb are often reduced in number. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > digit toec1386 forceps1661 digit1756 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iv. 477 The two outward digits are generally webbed a little at the base. 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 283 We find among reptiles, all the combinations of digits, from five to one, taken between two pairs of hands or claws. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 219 In the marine chelonia the digits of both limbs are elongated. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 285 The special organ of touch is the skin, above all the skin of the muzzle, tongue, and digits. 1925 R. S. Lull Ways of Life iv. 105 There has been in the past an increase in the number of digits until the standard number five was attained. 1960 Evolution 14 8/2 The first digit of the wing..resembles very closely the digits of the foot in size, shape and function. 1992 Cambr. Encycl. Human Evol. (1994) i. iii. 29/2 These little monkeys..are notable for..the sharp, squirrel-like claws on all their digits except the great toe. †5. Geometry. = degree n. 9a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [noun] > degree degreec1386 gree1423 grade?c1510 digit1653 1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 35 By their Calculation it was but eleven digits, and one fourth, which I conceiv to be fifteen minutes..a digit consisting of sixty minutes. B. adj. attributive. Designating a whole number less than ten. Now rare.In quot. 1610 confused with articulate adj. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures digit1539 numeral1577 numerical1647 numeric1825 figurate1830 1539 Introd. lerne for to recken with Pen sig. a.b Thou muste note that there be in algorisme thre maner of numbers, Diget number, Artycle, and Composte. The dygette nomber, is all maner of numbres, whiche are under.x.as these. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. 1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories xxxii. 181 The first, and cheif, is the number of six, which..decreaseth in euery rancke to the base point, and produceth an Odde,..which no other articulate number can effect... The first of digit numbers is Ten.] 1679 R. Chamberlain Arithmetick v. 75 By this way of multiplying your Divisor by the nine digit Numbers, you may, First observe to be very useful, not only in this way of dividing downward, but in all other ways of Division. ?1735 W. Mason La Plume volante (ed. 5) 65 All Digit Numbers are from One to Nine. 1791 Scriptores Logarithmici II. 46 Several logarithms for digit numbers, and mixt numbers. 1886 Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan June 39 The Chinese and Japanese in naming the ‘teens’ put the larger number, the ten, first; whereas we put the digit number first. 1917 T. Lindquist Mod. Arithm. Methods & Probl. xi. 105 That case in subtraction in which a digit number in the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one in the minuend. Compounds General attributive (in sense A. 1a), esp. with reference to computers, calculators, or other devices which store, display, or process digits, as digit counter, digit pulse, etc. ΚΠ 1909 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 20 517 In another kind of series, the ‘digit pattern’, the numerals 2 to 9 were substituted for the letters. 1921 C. D. Lake U.S. Patent 1,372,965 2/2 If the hole in the card represents the numeral 5, the register wheel will be turned five digit spaces. 1959 Economist 20 June 1110/2 In the search for higher computer speeds, one obvious approach was to raise the ‘digit frequency’ or pulse rate of the machine. 1963 I. H. Gould & F. Ellis Digital Computer Technol. vi. 50 It is not uncommon to speak of pulses which represent unit signals as ‘digit pulses’. 2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Apr. 24 Back at the depot, they replenish their tanks, shaking their heads in disgust as the pumps' rusty digit counters spin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † digitv. Forms: see digit n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: digit n. Etymology: < digit n. Compare classical Latin digitō mōnstrāre to point out with the finger. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To indicate with, or as with, a finger; to point out.In literal use apparently only in dictionaries: cf. digitation n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > hand gesture > [verb (transitive)] > express with fingers > point to showa1225 fingera1425 point1477 indigit1603 indigitate1623 digit1628 digitate1658 digitize1736 indicate1808 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxviii. sig. N5 I shall neuer care to be digited, with a That is Hee. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia (at cited word) To Digite, to point with the finger. 1709 Brit. Apollo 16–18 Feb. A most Pathetic Emblem this, To Digit out the Surest Bliss. 1864 ‘A. Forrester’ Female Detective 291 I pointed out the news to Mrs. Green, and I have no doubt she digited the intelligence to every soul she met, or rather overtook, in the course of the day. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.adj.?a1400v.1628
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digitn.adj.

Compounds

† digitv.