digitize

English

Alternative forms

• digitise, digitilize

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

From digit + -ize.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪtaɪz/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Verb

digitize (third-person singular simple present digitizes, present participle digitizing, simple past and past participle digitized)

1. (transitive, computing) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.

   Synonym: (less common) digitalize

   • 2000, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, Fundamental Photoshop 5.5, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 302:

     When you digitize a visual image, you are translating it into digital signals so that it can be broken down into pixels and loaded into the computer.

   • 2013, Nihar K. Patra, editor, Progressive Trends in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 187:

     According to press releases and university librarians, Google plans to digitize and make available through its Google Books service approximately 15 million volumes within a decade.

2. To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To finger.

   to digitize a pen

Derived terms

• digitizability
• digitizable
• digitized target
• digitizer
• redigitize

Related terms

• digitization

Translations

represent something as a sequence of binary digits

• Arabic: رَقْمَنَة f (raqmana)
• Catalan: digitalitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 數字化 / 数字化 (zh) (shùzìhuà)

• Czech: digitalizovat (cs)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: digitaliseren (nl)
• Finnish: digitalisoida (fi), digitoida (fi)
• French: numériser (fr), (informal) digitaliser (fr)
• Galician: dixitalizar
• German: digitalisieren (de)
• Greek: ψηφιοποιώ (el) (psifiopoió)
• Hungarian: digitalizál (hu)
• Italian: digitalizzare (it)
• Japanese: 電子化する (denshika suru), デジタル化する (dejitaruka suru), 数値化する (sūchika suru)
• Macedonian: дигитализира impf or pf (digitalizira)
• Polish: dygitalizować impf, zdygitalizować pf
• Portuguese: digitalizar (pt)
• Romanian: digitaliza (ro)
• Russian: оцифро́вывать (ru) impf (ocifróvyvatʹ), оцифрова́ть (ru) pf (ocifrovátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: дигитализовати (digitalizovati)
• Spanish: digitalizar (es), digitizar
• Swedish: digitalisera (sv)
• Vietnamese: số hóa (數化)

See also

• datafy