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Definition of Digit
1. Noun. One of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration. "0 and 1 are digits"
Generic synonyms: Integer, Whole Number
Specialized synonyms: Binary Digit, Octal Digit, Decimal Digit, Duodecimal Digit, Hexadecimal Digit, Significant Digit, Significant Figure, 0, Cipher, Cypher, Nought, Zero, 1, Ace, I, One, Single, Unity, 2, Deuce, Ii, Two, 3, Deuce-ace, Iii, Leash, Tercet, Ternary, Ternion, Terzetto, Three, Threesome, Tierce, Trey, Triad, Trine, Trinity, Trio, Triplet, Troika, 4, Four, Foursome, Iv, Little Joe, Quadruplet, Quartet, Quatern, Quaternary, Quaternion, Quaternity, Tetrad, 5, Cinque, Fin, Five, Fivesome, Little Phoebe, Pentad, Phoebe, Quint, Quintet, Quintuplet, V, 6, Captain Hicks, Half A Dozen, Hexad, Sestet, Sextet, Sextuplet, Sise, Six, Sixer, Vi, 7, Heptad, Septenary, Septet, Seven, Sevener, Vii, 8, Eight, Eighter, Eighter From Decatur, Octad, Octet, Octonary, Ogdoad, Viii, 9, Ennead, Ix, Nina From Carolina, Nine, Niner
Derivative terms: Digitalize, Digitise, Digitize
2. Noun. The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure.
Generic synonyms: Linear Measure, Linear Unit
3. Noun. A finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates.
Group relationships: Craniate, Vertebrate
Terms within: Phalanx, Nail
Generic synonyms: Appendage, Extremity, Member
Specialized synonyms: Minimus, Finger, Toe
Derivative terms: Digital
Definition of Digit
1. n. One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
2. v. t. To point at or out with the finger.
Definition of Digit
1. Noun. A finger or toe. ¹
2. Noun. A numeral that can be combined with others to write larger numbers, and that cannot itself be split into other numerals. ¹
3. Noun. (slang British in the plural) One's phone number. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To point at or point out with the finger. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Digit
1. a finger or toe [n -S]
Medical Definition of Digit
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Digit
Literary usage of Digit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1906)
"In adding we normally hold the results in terms of motor imagery while the
attention passes to the following digit (visual) to be added. ..."
2. American Journal of Archaeology by Archaeological Institute of America (1887)
"of the palette a 2 digit space is scored off, also a 6 digit space. Three times
the 2 digit space equals the 6 digit space, and one and oue half times the 6 ..."
3. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"This name may be applied to M. interosseus of the second digit (Fig. 89, <•). M.
abductor digiti secundi.—This name might be applied to a portion of the ..."
4. Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to by William Bateson (1894)
"DOUBLE-THUMBS : MAN. central digit on the presence of a digit external to it.
If therefore it be still called the "minimus" this term can only be applied to ..."
5. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1888)
"of the hollow of the 2nd bone of digit III. The expanded terminal cartilage of
digit II. is opposite the proximal part of the hollow of the 2nd bone of ..."
6. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"This rial-eie separates that digit from tue axis of the hand, and is therefore an
... It may also concur in the flexion of the small digit, though to a very ..."
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