digitization

English

Alternative forms

• digitisation

Etymology

Etymology tree

English digit

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English digitize

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English digitization

From digitize + -ation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

digitization (countable and uncountable, plural digitizations)

1. (computing) The conversion of data or information from analog to digital or binary.

   Synonym: digitalization

2. (computing) Hence, the transformation of a process or system from mainly analogue form to digital form

Derived terms

• interdigitization
• retrodigitization

Related terms

• digitation
• digitize (verb)

Translations

conversion of data to digital

• Albanian: dixhitalizim m
• Arabic: رَقْمَنَة f (raqmana)
• Belarusian: аблічбо́ўка f (abličbówka), дыджыталіза́цыя f (dydžytalizácyja)
• Bulgarian: дигитализа́ция f (digitalizácija)
• Catalan: digitalització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 數字化 / 数字化 (sou³ zi⁶ faa³)

  Mandarin: 數字化 / 数字化 (zh) (shùzìhuà), 電子化 / 电子化 (diànzǐhuà)

• Czech: digitalizace f
• Danish: digitalisering c
• Dutch: digitalisering (nl) f
• Estonian: digiteerimine
• Finnish: digitointi (fi), digitalisointi (fi)
• French: numérisation (fr) f
• Galician: dixitalización f
• Georgian: გაციფრულება (gacipruleba), დიგიტალიზაცია (digiṭalizacia)
• German: Digitalisierung (de) f
• Greek: ψηφιοποίηση (el) f (psifiopoíisi)
• Hungarian: digitalizálás (hu)
• Italian: digitalizzazione (it) f, numerizzazione f
• Japanese: デジタル化 (デジタルか, dejitaruka), 電子化 (でんしか, denshika), 数値化 (すうちか, sūchika)
• Korean: 디지털화 (dijiteolhwa), 수치화(數値化) (suchihwa), 전자화(電子化) (jeonjahwa)
• Macedonian: дигитализација f (digitalizacija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: digitalisering m

• Polish: digitalizacja (pl) f, dygitalizacja f
• Portuguese: digitalização (pt) f
• Romanian: digitalizare (ro) f
• Russian: оцифро́вка (ru) f (ocifróvka), оцифро́вывание (ru) n (ocifróvyvanije), диджитализа́ция (ru) f (didžitalizácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дигитализација f, дигитализовање n

  Latin: digitalizacija f, digitalizovanje n

• Slovak: digitalizácia f
• Slovene: digitalizacija f
• Spanish: digitalización (es) f
• Swedish: digitalisering (sv) c
• Turkish: dijitalize etmek, dijitalleştimek
• Ukrainian: оцифро́вування n (ocyfróvuvannja), диджиталіза́ція f (dydžytalizácija)
• Vietnamese: số hoá (vi)