Digital
adj, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A digital option. countable, uncountable
- 2 Digital equipment or technology. uncountable
"He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera."
- 3 Ellipsis of digital watch. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
"Initially, traditional watchmakers could not see much future in digitals."
- 4 Ellipsis of digital art. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, informal, uncountable
- 5 Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument. countable, uncountable
"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, […]"
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- 6 A finger. colloquial, countable, humorous, uncountable
"[…] 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 […]"
- 1 Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); especially, performed with a finger. not-comparable
"digital palpation"
- 2 Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum. not-comparable
"digital computer"
- 3 Of or relating to computers or the Information Age. not-comparable
"Near-synonyms: computerized, electronic, digitized, virtual"
- 1 of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits wordnet
- 2 relating to or performed with the fingers wordnet
- 3 displaying numbers rather than scale positions wordnet
Example
More examples"I'm going to buy myself a new camera, digital this time."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”), equivalent to digit + -al. Doublet of digitalis.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.