digitize

To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.

Verb

  1. To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.
    • 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. - 2000, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, Fundamental...
    • 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. - 2013, Nihar K. Patra, editor,...

    Synonyms: digitalize

  2. To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
  3. To finger.
    • to digitize a pen

Origin

Etymology tree English digit Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English digitize From digit + -ize.

Forms

digitizes digitizing digitized digitise digitilize

Related

digitization datafy

Derived

digitizability digitizable digitized target digitizer redigitize