DIGIT
\dˈɪd͡ʒɪt], \dˈɪdʒɪt], \d_ˈɪ_dʒ_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of DIGIT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
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A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.
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To point at or out with the finger.
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One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; - so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.
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One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; - a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.
By Oddity Software
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One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
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A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.
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To point at or out with the finger.
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One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; - so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.
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One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; - a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.
By Noah Webster.
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A finger or toe; a measure (3/4 inch); one-twelfth of the diameter of the sun or moon; any one of the Arabic numerals.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
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A finger: a finger’s breadth or 3/4 inch: from the habit of counting on the fingers, any one of the nine figures: the twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon. This word is often used scientifically to signify toe, as well as finger, when speaking of animals, and in this sense it is coextensive with the Latin digitus.
By Daniel Lyons
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A finger; one of the nine figures, 1, 2, &c.; finger's breadth; 12th part of the diameter of the sun or moon.
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Digital.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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