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digit
English
Etymology
From Middle English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”). Doublet of digitus.
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?'j?t, IPA(key): /?d?d??t/
- Rhymes: -?d??t
Noun
digit (plural digits)
- (mathematics) The whole numbers from 0 to 9 and the Arabic numerals representing them, which are combined to represent base-ten numbers.
- The number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.
- (mathematics) A distinct symbol representing one of an arithmetic progression of numbers between 0 and the radix.
- Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.
- (units of measure, astronomy) 1?12 the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse.
- A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.
- (historical units of measure) A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of 1?16 foot (about 1.9 cm).
- (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.
- (anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.
- (zoology) Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals.
- 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates
- The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.
- 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates
- (geometry, rare, obsolete) Synonym of degree: 1?360 of a circle.
Synonyms
- (numerical place): place, figure (informal, usually in discussion of money)
- (astronomical unit): finger (obsolete)
- (unit of length): finger, fingerbreadth, fingersbreadth
Hyponyms
- (extremity of the hand or foot): finger, thumb, toe
Related terms
- digits
Derived terms
- digital
- digit counter
- digitize
- digit number (obsolete)
- digit pulse
Translations
Verb
digit (third-person singular simple present digits, present participle digiting, simple past and past participle digited)
- (transitive) To point at or point out with the finger.
References
- "digit, n. and adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
French
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.?it/
Noun
digit m (plural digits)
- digit (number from 0-9)
Middle English
Alternative forms
- digite, digitus
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin digitus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?did?it/, /?did?itus/
Noun
digit (plural digitys)
- digit (Arabic numeral)
Descendants
- English: digit
References
- “di?it, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-21.
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aughts
English
Alternative forms
- oughts
Pronunciation
- (Canada, New England), IPA(key): /??ts/
- (UK) IPA(key): /??ts/
- (US) IPA(key): /??ts/
Noun
aughts pl (plural only)
- The first decade of a century, such as 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009, whose digit in the tens place is zero; the oughts, the noughties.
Derived terms
- mid-aughts
See also
Adjective
aughts (not comparable)
- From or evoking the first through tenth years of a century (chiefly the 2000s).
- Dialup internet is so aughts.
Anagrams
- ghauts, saught
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- oughts or aughts
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