Noun: digital
| Singular | digital |
| Plural | digitals |
Sample Sentences
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He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.
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Initially, traditional watchmakers could not see much future in digitals. [2000, Amy Glasmeier, Manufacturing Time, page 209:]
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Beginning with the keyboard, direct attention to the grouping of the black digitals, and show that though at the outer edge of the keyboard the white digitals look as if they were all equally close neighbours, yet, […] [c.1920?, Annie Jessy Gregg Curwen, The Teacher's Guide to Mrs. Curwen's Pianoforte Method (The Child Pianist)]
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[…] turning round as he reached the door, he placed his digitals in close proximity to his proboscis, saying—“I guess there an't anything green about this child!' and left the Professor in utter astonishment […] [1853, Yankee Notions, volume 2, page 137:]
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[…] with grave complacency wiggles his digitals, and turns away with a scornful smile playing upon his countenance. [1855, North Carolina University Magazine, volume 3, page 23:]
Nouns inflected like digital
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”), equivalent to digit + -al. Doublet of digitalis. See: Latin Nouns '
digitālis'.
Verbs referencing "digital"
Russian Nouns
диджитал.