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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
digit
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
check digit
double digits
▪ Sam’s team scored in the double digits in nine out of ten games.
scored in the double digits
▪ Sam’s team scored in the double digits in nine out of ten games.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
binary
▪ In this way, a single D-type bistable can remember one binary digit - or 0 or a 1.
▪ There are various ways of presenting a graph in terms of binary digits.
▪ We have seen that a single flip-flop can remember one binary digit.
▪ The string of binary digits that the machine has now produced at the left is the answer to the calculation.
▪ But most applications require the transmission of digital messages consisting of binary digits or hits.
▪ A single bit-plane can hold only one binary digit in each position.
decimal
▪ A sequence of decimal digits input from the keyboard is formed into the corresponding decimal whole number or zero.
▪ This gives a maximum accuracy of just over 9 decimal digits.
▪ Character handling on word-oriented computers Most modern computers attempt to provide facilities for manipulating strings of characters and possibly decimal digits.
double
▪ The double digit inflation and growing trade deficit were the government's most difficult economic problems.
▪ And considering each menu consists of a whopping seven courses, those double digits actually sound reasonable.
▪ Underlying pre-tax profits rise 12 %-eighth consecutive year of delivering double digit growth at this level?
▪ The power systems unit had a drop in operating profit even though revenue rose in the double digits, Bunch said.
▪ Second, they saw foreign stock markets galloping along, delivering returns in the high double digits.
numeric
▪ The Product identifier is a numeric up to 6 digits long.
single
▪ This is still a key financial objective. Single digit margins are simply not acceptable in a company like ours.
▪ Once highly popular, his ratings in the polls sometimes dropped into single digits.
▪ Far better to await a further sharp drop in mortgage rates into the high or even middling single digits.
▪ The unit posted a single-digit increase in operating profit.
▪ The major element of the code was a single digit which indicated the overall condition of the item.
▪ Some analysts expect cellular growth to fall to single digits in a few years.
▪ In adding two single digits, the answers can range from 0 to 18.
▪ Fife Symington, leading his cheering section, were in single digits.
■ VERB
score
▪ For the first time this season, all five starters score in double digits.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
six figures/digits
▪ But that must mean that the estate might run well into six figures.
▪ Each new compound synthesised was simply given a number, sometimes up to six figures long.
▪ Here are guys making six figures.
▪ Landsness obtained a settlement that he said exceeded six figures.
▪ Minutes later, a small group of six figures emerged from the woods.
▪ Movie rights have been sold, and Vintage Books just paid six figures to publish the paperback.
▪ That might boost the take up into the low six figures.
▪ The five-year deal is estimated at six figures.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ French telephone numbers have six digits.
▪ This calculator can display only nine digits at a time.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example, in mice and humans the digits are initially joined together and only cell death between the digits separates them.
▪ I do not require that there be any algorithm, known or unknown, for presenting these digits.
▪ I remembered Gerry saying she thought it must be a radio phone as it had so many digits.
▪ If the number is more than one digit, add them together.
▪ It consists of just two symbols, the digits 0 and 1.
▪ The Client identifier is a numeric up to 6 digits long.
▪ The double digit inflation and growing trade deficit were the government's most difficult economic problems.
▪ Voter turnout will be in the single digits Tuesday.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
digit

digit \dig"it\, v. t. To point at or out with the finger. [R.]

digit

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.]

  1. (Zo["o]l.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.

    The ruminants have the ``cloven foot,'' i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot.
    --Owen.

  2. A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.

  3. (Math.) One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.

    Note: By some authorities the symbol 0 is not included with the digits.

  4. (Anat.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
digit

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. The "finger or toe" sense in English is attested from 1640s.

Wiktionary
digit

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, commonly estimated to be three quarters of an inch. 5 (context astronomy English) A twelfth of the diameter of the Sun or Moon; used to express the quantity of an eclipse. vb. (context transitive English) To point at or point out with the finger.

WordNet
digit
  1. n. one of the elements that collectively form a system of numbers; "0 and 1 are digits" [syn: figure]

  2. the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure [syn: finger, fingerbreadth, finger's breadth]

  3. a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding part in other vertebrates [syn: dactyl]

Wikipedia
Digit

Digit may refer to:

  • Digit (anatomy), one of several most distal parts of a limb—fingers, thumbs, and toes on hands and feet
  • Numerical digit, as used in mathematics or computer science
  • Dit or digit, synonym of Ban (unit), a unit of information entropy
  • Digit (unit), an ancient measurement unit
  • Phone number, slang as digit, as in "Let me get your digits so I can call you tonight."
  • Digit (magazine), an Indian information technology magazine
  • digits dancing, a type of gestural, interpretive, rave and urban street dance
  • Digit (Cyberchase), a Cyberchase character
  • Digit, an obscure robotic Muppet character
  • Digit, Dian Fossey's favourite gorilla, who was killed by poachers in Rwanda. Fossey subsequently created the Digit Fund to raise money for anti-poaching patrols
Digit (magazine)

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 technology magazine in India, higher than even the combined readership of its peers. It is circulated in India officially, but also reaches Nepal, Sri Lanka, Oman, Dubai and some other countries through unofficial channels. It was started in 2001 by Jasubhai Digital Media Pvt. Ltd, a company that was later acquired by 9.9 Media in 2007.

Each issue of Digit includes a magazine, one or two dual-layer DVDs called alpha and omega, a mini-book called Fast Track,''' '''a gaming supplement called SKOAR! and a poster. Fast Track is an in-depth reference guide on any given sub-topic of information technology, such as web publishing and open source software, or a product, such as Photoshop. The Fast Track series are aimed at readers ranging from beginners to intermediate and even advanced level readers.

There are three special issues every year: Anniversary Special (June), Diwali Shopping Special (October) and Collector's Edition (December). Each of these issues hosts additional content, contests and digital media besides the regular contents of the magazine package.

Digit has recently launched Digit TV. One of the DVDs in the October 2009 issue of Digit was dedicated to Digit TV, and it featured a Video Buying Guide. Digit TV has since been shifted to Digit's YouTube Channel

In 2013, Digit introduced a supplement to the magazine named DGT. It focuses on lifestyle technology rather than mainstream technology. This has now been moved into the main Digit magazine as a section and replaced with a SKOAR! supplement.

On May 30, 2014, Digit's website www.thinkdigit.com got a new address - www.digit.in. On the occasion of the magazine's 13th anniversary, Digit sported a brand new avatar and boasted of responsive design for its website with some added features in the form of "Digit Rewards".

Digit (unit)

The digit or finger is an ancient and obsolete non- SI unit of measurement of length. It was originally based on the breadth of a human finger. It was a fundamental unit of length in the Ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Ancient Greek and Roman systems of measurement.

In astronomy a digit is one twelfth of the diameter of the sun or the moon.

Digit (anatomy)

A digit is one of several most distal parts of a limb, such as fingers or toes, present in many vertebrates.

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.