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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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

Etymology

From Middle English displayen, from Anglo-Norman despleier and Old French despleier, desploiier, from Medieval Latin displicare (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plic?re (“to fold”). Doublet of deploy.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?spl??, IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?/
• Rhymes: -e?
• Hyphenation: dis?play

Noun

display (countable and uncountable, plural displays)

1. A show or spectacle.

2. A piece of work to be presented visually.

3. A device, furniture or marketing-oriented bulk packaging for visual presentation for sales promotion.
4. (computing) An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
5. (computing) The presentation of information for visual or tactile reception.
6. (travel, aviation, in a reservation system) The asterisk symbol, used to denote that the following information will be displayed, eg, *H will "display history".

Descendants

• ? Russian: ???????? (displéj)
  • ? Kazakh: ??????? (dïspley)

Translations

See also

Verb

display (third-person singular simple present displays, present participle displaying, simple past and past participle displayed)

1. (transitive) To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.
2. (intransitive) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
3. (military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)

4. (printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.
5. (obsolete) To discover; to descry.
6. (obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.

   Synonym: splay

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.v:

     The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display, / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].

Translations

Further reading

• display in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• display in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• display at OneLook Dictionary Search

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English display.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?ple?/, /?d?s.ple?/
• Hyphenation: dis?play
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

display m or n (plural displays, diminutive displaytje n)

1. display (screen)

Portuguese

Etymology

From English display.

Noun

display m (plural displays)

1. display (electronic screen)

   Synonyms: ecrã, tela

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:display.

Spanish

Etymology

From English display.

Noun

display m (plural displays)

1. display