digit

From Middle English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”). Doublet of digitus.

• enPR: dĭ'jĭt, IPA^(key): /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪdʒɪt

The Egyptian hieroglyph for "digit" (ḏbꜥ, D50).

digit (plural digits)

1. (mathematics) The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined to represent base-ten numbers.

   The number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.

   Synonyms: place; figure (informal, usually in discussion of money)

2. (mathematics) A distinct symbol representing one of an arithmetic progression of numbers between 0 and the radix.

   Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.

3. (units of measure, astronomy) ¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.

   A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.

   Synonym: finger (obsolete)

4. (historical units of measure) A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot, now equivalent to about 1.9 cm.

   Synonyms: finger, fingerbreadth, fingersbreadth

5. (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.
6. (anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.

   Hyponyms: finger, thumb, toe

   • 2018, Shiv Kotecha, The Switch, United States: Wonder, →ISBN, page 144:

     Jai grabbed Andrew’s shoulders with the same three digits he had used to grab the ancient doubter’s skull and spun him around.

7. (zoology) Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.
   • 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates

     The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.

8. (geometry, rare, obsolete) Synonym of degree: ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle.

• (unit of length): palm, span, handspan, cubit, fathom

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digit (third-person singular simple present digits, present participle digiting, simple past and past participle digited)

1. (transitive) To point at or point out with the finger.

• "digit, n. and adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From English digit, from digitus.

• IPA^(key): /di.ʒit/

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digit m (plural digits)

1. digit (number from 0-9)

• digite, digitus

Borrowed from Latin digitus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdidʒit/, /ˈdidʒitus/

digit (plural digitys)

1. digit (Arabic numeral)

• English: digit

• “diǧit, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-21.

From English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”). Doublet of deget.

digit m (plural digiți)

1. digit