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
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verb

To point at or point out with the finger.

Wiktionary
other
A jointed body part at the end of the limbs of many vertebrates. The limbs of primates end in five digits, while the limbs of horses end in a single digit that terminates in a hoof. The fingers and toes are digits in humans.
American Heritage Science

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.

  • 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 --

  • Owen for that division of ungulate mammals in which the toe corresponding to the middle (third) digit of the human hand and foot is symmetrical in itself, and larger than those on either side (when such are present).

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Words Starting With

DDIDIG

Words Ending With

TITGIT

Unscrambles

digit

Words Starting With D and Ending With T

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