digitize

English

Alternative forms

digitise, digitilize

Etymology

digit +‎ -ize

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪdʒɪtaɪz/

Verb

digitize (third-person singular simple present digitizes, present participle digitizing, simple past and past participle digitized)

(transitive, computing) To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.
Synonym: (less common) digitalize
- 2000, Adele Droblas Greenberg; Seth Greenberg, Fundamental Photoshop 5.5, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 302:
  When you digitize a visual image, you are translating it into digital signals so that it can be broken down into pixels and loaded into the computer.
- 2013, Nihar K. Patra, editor, Progressive Trends in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 187:
  According to press releases and university librarians, Google plans to digitize and make available through its Google Books service approximately 15 million volumes within a decade.
To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
(transitive, obsolete) To finger.
to digitize a pen

Derived terms

digitized target

Related terms

digitization

Translations

represent something as a sequence of binary digits

Arabic: رَقْمَنَة‎ f (raqmana)
Catalan: digitalitzar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 數字化／数字化 (zh) (shùzìhuà)
Czech: digitalizovat (cs)
Dutch: digitaliseren (nl)
Finnish: digitalisoida (fi), digitoida (fi)
French: numériser (fr), (informal) digitaliser (fr)
Galician: dixitalizar
German: digitalisieren (de)
Greek: ψηφιοποιώ (el) (psifiopoió)
Hungarian: digitalizál (hu)
Italian: digitalizzare (it)
Japanese: 電子化する (denshika suru), デジタル化する (dejitaruka suru), 数値化する (sūchika suru)
Portuguese: digitalizar (pt)
Romanian: digitaliza (ro)
Russian: оцифро́вывать (ru) impf (ocifróvyvatʹ), оцифрова́ть (ru) pf (ocifrovátʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: дигитализовати (digitalizovati)
Spanish: digitalizar (es)
Swedish: digitalisera (sv)
Vietnamese: số hóa (數化)