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Finger, say
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digit
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Digit is an Indian monthly technology magazine published by 9.9 Media. According to the last Indian Readership Survey results that mentioned it (IRS 2011 Q1) it has a readership of about 230,000. The IRS surveys have always shown Digit to be the most read ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A finger or toe. 2 A numeral that can be combined with others to write larger numbers, and that cannot itself be split into other numerals. 3 (context slang in the plural English) One's phone number. 4 (context archaic English) A finger's breadth, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
digit \dig"it\ (d[i^]j"[i^]t), n. [L. digitus finger; prob. akin to Gr. da`ktylos, of uncertain origin; possibly akin to E. toe. Cf. Dactyl .] (Zo["o]l.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. The ruminants have the ``cloven ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "numeral below 10," from Latin digitus "finger or toe" (also with secondary meanings dealing in counting and numerals), related to dicere "tell, say, point out" (see diction ). Numerical sense is because numerals under 10 were counted on fingers. ...
Usage examples of digit.
When an authorized person needs to access the network from offsite, she must first identify herself as an authorized user by typing in her secret PIN and the digits displayed on her token device.
Room 40 knew from its analyses that 0075 was one of a series of two-part codes that the German Foreign Office designated by two zeros and two digits, the two digits always showing an arithmetical difference of 2.
In their 1949 book Mathematics and the Imagination, Edward Kasner and James Newman introduced the world to the googol - the digit 1 followed by a hundred zeros.
And on the hand, here, the fingernails are likewise all missing, and the left second and third digits missing down to the medial metacarpals.
The remaining three digits of the ancestral ornithoid had fused to produce the alatan bone which swept backward for more than a meter.
Swirling the top of his finger into the tight little space, he slid the digit all the way in and started a steady reciprocal motion.
Brulet, Van Esh, Farmer, Ponteau, Regnault, and Rosenberg cite instances of reunion of a digit after amputation or severance.
Also the program permutated the dictionary words to try each word with an appended digit, or appending the number of the current month.
A web of grayish skin was growing between the two malformed digits and was already up to the first knuckle.
The movements of the digits are quite different from those attending any other disease, impossible to imitate even by the most skilful malingerer, and, if once seen, are not likely to be forgotten.
Physical failures, such as missing digits or limbs or organs, or extra ones, or misarrangement of them.
For example, two numbers are equal modulo 10 if they have the same last digit.
A time display flashed in the bottom right corner of the photon amp image, spectral yellow digits: 21:17:08.
Babinski contraction of all five digits of right foot, no plantar reflex.
Nearly all of his digits boasted a shiny bauble, and his teeth gleamed when he smiled, giving him the uneasy appearance of a prowling wolf.