1. Relatif aux nombres. Calcul numérique.
2. En nombre. Supériorité numérique.
3. Digital. Techniques numériques.
ETYM Latin digitals.
1. Relating to or performed with the fingers.
2. Displaying numbers rather than scale positions.
3. (Electronics) Of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits.
ETYM Cf. French numérique. Related to Number.
Measured or expressed in numbers; SYN. numerical.
1. Designated by or expressed in numbers; SYN. numeric.
2. Relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers; SYN. mathematical.
1. A reference to something based on digits (numbers) or their representation.
2. In computing, analogous in use, though not in meaning, to binary because the computers familiar to most people process information coded as different combinations of the binary digits (bits) 0 and 1. Compare analog.
In electronics and computing, a term meaning “coded as numbers”. A digital system uses two-state, either on/off or high/low voltage pulses, to encode, receive, and transmit information. A digital display shows discrete values as numbers (as opposed to an analog signal, such as the continuous sweep of a pointer on a dial).
Digital electronics is the technology that underlies digital techniques. Low-power, miniature, integrated circuits (chips) provide the means for the coding, storage, transmission, processing, and reconstruction of information of all kinds.
(of a computer) calculating by numbers and not quantities.