digitize

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Etymology

From digit +‎ -ize.

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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.
    Synonym: (less common) digitalize
    • 2000, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, Fundamental Photoshop 5.5, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 302:
      When you digitize a visual image, you are translating it into digital signals so that it can be broken down into pixels and loaded into the computer.
    • 2013, Nihar K. Patra, editor, Progressive Trends in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 187:
      According to press releases and university librarians, Google plans to digitize and make available through its Google Books service approximately 15 million volumes within a decade.
  2. To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To finger.
    to digitize a pen

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