digitize
verbUK /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtaɪz/ · CA, US /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪˌtaɪz/
Etymology From digit + -ize.
1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.
- 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.2000, Adele Droblas Greenberg, Seth Greenberg, Fundamental Photoshop 5.5, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 302:
- 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.2013, Nihar K. Patra, editor, Progressive Trends in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 187:
2
To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
3
Obsolete To finger.
- to digitize a pen
- Derived terms
- digitizability, digitizable, digitized target, digitizer, redigitize
- Related terms
- digitization, datafy