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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
digitize
verb
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▪ To create special effects, engineers digitize the film and then work with it on computer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
digitize

digitize \dig"i*tize\ (d[i^]j"[i^]*t[imac]z), v. t. [Digit + -ize.]

  1. To finger; as, to digitize a pen. [R.]
    --Sir T. Browne.

  2. (Computers) To convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in numbers or in binary notation. The original signal before digitization is usually in analog form.

    Note: Digitization allows convenient storage, accurate reproduction, modification and other manipulations by digital computers.

Wiktionary
digitize

vb. 1 (context computing English) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits 2 To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value 3 (context obsolete English) To finger.

WordNet
digitize

v. put into digital form, as for use in a computer; "he bought a device to digitize the data" [syn: digitise, digitalize, digitalise]

Usage examples of "digitize".

By shrinking the public domain, it shrinks the number of modern classics that volunteers can lawfully digitize and make freely available on the internet.

First we sedate, using conventional cryogenic gasses, but then we flush it all out using a high-density energy plasma that is slightly altered Flux energy, and that stuff maintains the suspension for a sufficient time to digitize the subject.

The solution was to digitize the inorganic stuff before you left, creating, in effect, little computer programs that could be used to recreate your belongings when you got there.

Control allows this one outgoing probe, but power is insufficient to digitize whole unit.

The size of the digitized collections must pose a serious challenge as far as timely retrieval is concerned.

The digitized mirror was clicking and flexing, moving in tiny increments of a few wavelengths of light.

For the first time, human and machine had taken a complex compound, digitized it, quite literally turning it from matter into energy as it did so, then converted back from energy to matter using the digital pattern memorized by the computer as it had been converted the first time.

Injected at the speed of light, but in a digitized and orderly manner, matter broken down into energy might well be reduced to an equation, or series of equations, written in energy itself.

I have not been provided with digitized examples or programs of appropriate animal sea life beyond algae.

We got it to where it could take a scraping, read your genetic code, figure all the basics out, then apply that to you when you get digitized in the tube.

She even understood how she came to be this waysomeone had been digitized and read into the computer with a series of parameters, and she was the result.

In the files of the computers were the digitized codes for some very fine wines as well as other food and beverage service and even some drugs.

In that case, I would have to implement the digitized matrix I currently have on file.

Master cubes containing digitized animals of the more exotic nature had not been used to date, but there was talk of establishing a major game preserve for them, since many were extinct in the wild back on Earth, while others were extinct everywhere but could be cloned from frozen DNA some farsighted programs had taken and preserved.

The computer, after all, was constantly digitizing and reassembling everything in the void, and could select out, run a comparison with the last digitized model not changed, and then illustrate the pattern to one who wanted it.