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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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branch
English
Alternative forms
- braunch (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, borrowed from Old French branche, brance, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”), of unknown origin, possibly from Gaulish *vranca, from Proto-Indo-European *wrónk-eh?.
Indo-European cognates include Old Norse vró (“angle, corner”), Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (r?ka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bränch, IPA(key): /b???nt?/
- (US, Northern England) enPR: br?nch, IPA(key): /b?ænt?/
- Rhymes: -??nt?, -ænt?
Noun
branch (plural branches)
- The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
- Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
- (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.)
- (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
- A location of an organization with several locations.
- A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
- his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock
- 1602, Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall
- (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
- An area in business or of knowledge, research.
- (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
- (computing) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
- (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
- (rail transport) A branch line.
Synonyms
- (part of a tree): bough, limb, tillow, twig; see also Thesaurus:tree
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
branch (third-person singular simple present branches, present participle branching, simple past and past participle branched)
- (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
- (intransitive) To produce branches.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Life Loves Living," [2]:
- The tree throve and branched so heavily that the windows of Lower West and the Doll's Flat were darkened.
- 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "Life Loves Living," [2]:
- (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
- (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
- (transitive, colloquial) To discipline (a union member) at a branch meeting.
- 2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties (page 199)
- His staff were 'not journalists, but Communists', he maintained. Nonetheless, in 1948 his vigorous editorship took the paper's circulation to 120,000 a day. The following year, he was 'branched' by the National Union of Journalists for an intemperate attack on Fleet Street.
- 2003, Paul Routledge, The Bumper Book of British Lefties (page 199)
Related terms
- branch off
- branch out
Translations
References
Further reading
- branch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- branch (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French branche (“branch”).
Noun
branch
- branch
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
branch
- Alternative form of braunche
Etymology 2
Verb
branch
- Alternative form of braunchen
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