Digit
['dɪdʒɪt]
Definition
(noun.) a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates.
(noun.) one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration; '0 and 1 are digits'.
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Definition
(n.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
(n.) A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.
(n.) One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.
(n.) One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.
(v. t.) To point at or out with the finger.
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Examples
- Under Theodoric the Great, Boethius made use of certain signs which were in part very like the nine digits which we now use. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No two people born into the world probably have ever had identical lines upon all their digits. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The next adding and calculating machine was an evolution from the digits of the human hand and is known as the abacus in China, and the soroban in Japan. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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