(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:04:36

Dig"i*tize (?), v. t. [Digit + -ize.]

To finger; as, to digitize a pen.

[R.] Sir T. Browne. <-- computers to convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressible in binary notation -->

 

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