## Meanings
1. Relating to computers, the internet, and electronic technology.
2. Showing information as numbers rather than with hands or a scale.
3. Storing or sending information as discrete numbers, usually in binary code.
4. Relating to or done with the fingers.

## Examples
- Most newspapers now have a digital version you can read online.
- The digital clock on the wall read 9:45.
- A digital camera records images as data instead of on film.
- The doctor performed a digital examination of the wound.

## Antonyms
- analog
- analogue
- continuous
- nondigital
- undigital

## Derived Forms
- bidigital
- biodigital
- digerati
- digilante
- digipeater
- digiscope
- digitalia
- digitalise
- digitalism
- digitalization
- digitalize
- digitally

## Related Forms
- digitalis
- digitality
- digitate
- digitigrade

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”), equivalent to digit + -al. Doublet of digitalis.

## AI Etymology
digital was borrowed from Latin digitālis, from digitus (“finger, toe”) + -alis (“-al”), equivalent to digit + -al. Doublet of digitalis. Current senses include Relating to computers, the internet, and electronic technology and Showing information as numbers rather than with hands or a scale. English relatives and later formations include bidigital, biodigital, digerati, digitalis, digitality.

## Topics
- Technology & Computing

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