digitalとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtəɫ/

形容詞

digital (not comparable)

1. Having to do with digits (fingers または toes); performed with a finger.
2. Property of representing values as discrete, usually binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.
   • 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

     Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.

   digital computer;  digital clock

3. Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.

   Digital payment systems are replacing cash transactions.

反意語

• nondigital
• undigital
• (representing discrete values): analog, analogue, continuous

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Thai: ดิจิทัล (dí-jì-tâl)

名詞

digital (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 digitals)

1. (finance) A digital option.
2. (uncountable) Digital equipment or technology.

   He moved to digital for the first time, using a Sony camera.

3. (informal, uncountable) Short for digital art.

   Coordinate term: traditional

4. (music) Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.
   • c.1920?, Annie Jessy Gregg Curwen, The Teacher's Guide to Mrs. Curwen's Pianoforte Method (The Child Pianist)

     Beginning with the keyboard, direct attention to the grouping of the black digitals, and show that though at the outer edge of the keyboard the white digitals look as if they were all equally close neighbours, yet, […]

5. (colloquial, humorous) A finger.
   • 1853, Yankee Notions (volume 2, page 137)

     […] turning round as he reached the door, he placed his digitals in close proximity to his proboscis, saying—“I guess there an't anything green about this child!' and left the Professor in utter astonishment […]

   • 1855, North Carolina University Magazine (volume 3, page 23)

     […] with grave complacency wiggles his digitals, and turns away with a scornful smile playing upon his countenance.