digitalize

English

Alternative forms

• digitalise

Etymology

From digital +‎ -ize (“to make”) or digitalis +‎ -ize.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪdʒɪtəˈlaɪz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdi-jə-tə-ˌlīz/

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Verb

digitalize (third-person singular simple present digitalizes, present participle digitalizing, simple past and past participle digitalized)

1. (computing, transitive) Synonym of digitize.
   • 2004, Tom Mendina, Johannes J. Britz, editors, Information Ethics in the Electronic Age […] , McFarland, →ISBN, page 89:

     How to lawfully digitalize resources has become the principal issue in constructing digital libraries. To digitalize resources means to transform a document into digital format, which only adds a mode of using the resources but does not produce a new one.

2. (medicine) To administer digitalis.
   • 1951 January, Irving S. Wright, “The treatment of coronary thrombosis with myocardial infarction”, in Veterans Administration Technical Bulletins (10), volume IV, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 3:

     The dosage should be sufficient to produce satisfactory digitalization but it is our impression that it is less hazardous to digitalize with moderate rapidity than by using a massive dose.

Usage notes

(digitize): Far less common than digitize. According to Garner's Modern American Usage, a “needless variant”.

Derived terms

• digitalization

Translations

make digital — see digitize

to administer digitalis

Portuguese

Verb

digitalize

1. inflection of digitalizar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative