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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)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (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).
5. (units of measure, obsolete) Synonym of inch.
6. (anatomy) A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe.
7. (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.

8. (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)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. digit (Arabic numeral)

Descendants

• English: digit

References

• “di?it, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-21.

English

Alternative forms

• bow, bowe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English bough, bowe, bogh, bo?e, bo?, from Old English b?h, b?g (“arm; shoulder; bough”), from Proto-Germanic *b?guz (“upper arm; shoulder”) (compare German Bug (“shoulder, hock, joint”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eh???ús (“forearm, elbow”) (compare Ancient Greek ????? (pêkhus, “forearm”), Old Armenian ?????? (bazuk, “arm, forearm, bough”), Persian ????? (b?zu, “upper arm”), Sanskrit ???? (b?hú, “arm”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba?/
• Homophone: bow
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

bough (plural boughs)

1. A firm branch of a tree.
   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, chapter 18. p. 172:

     A pair of birds settle on the bough above them, murmuring together, ready to roost.

2. (obsolete, poetic) The gallows.

Derived terms

• cut not the bough that you are standing upon

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “bough”, in Online Etymology Dictionary