Digit Definition

dĭjĭt
digits
noun
digits
A human finger or toe.
American Heritage Medicine
A corresponding part in other vertebrates.
American Heritage Medicine
A unit of linear measure equal to34 inch, based on the breadth of a finger.
Webster's New World
Any numeral from 0 to 9
Webster's New World
Such a symbol used in a system of numeration.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb

To point at or point out with the finger.

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Other Word Forms of Digit

Noun

Singular:
digit
Plural:
digits

Origin of Digit

  • Middle English from Latin digitus finger, toe deik- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin digitus (“a finger or toe”).

    From Wiktionary

Digit Sentence Examples

  • Pulling out the letter, she looked at the ten digit key code.

  • It may be shown by a mark (33) on the 26th digit of Sharpe's Egyptian cubit = 19.2 in.

  • In the typical Ungulata or Diplarthra, the feet are never plantigrade, and the functional toes do not exceed four - the inner digit being suppressed, Right Fore Foot of Indian at all events in all forms which Elephant.

  • Most ancient measures have been derived from one of two great systems, that of the cubit of 20.63 in., or the digit of 0.729 in.; and both these systems are found in the earliest remains.

  • This is also evidently the Olympic cubit; and, in pursuance of the decimal multiple of the digit found in Egypt and Persia, the cubit of 25 digits was (1/4)th of the orguia of 100 digits, the series being --

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Words Starting With

DDIDIG

Words Ending With

TITGIT

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Words Starting With D and Ending With T

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