digitalize
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
digitalize (third-person singular simple present digitalizes, present participle digitalizing, simple past and past participle digitalized)
- (computing, transitive) Synonym of digitize
- 2004, Tom Mendina, Johannes J. Britz, editors, Information Ethics in the Electronic Age […] , McFarland, →ISBN, page 89:
- How to lawfully digitalize resources has become the principal issue in constructing digital libraries. To digitalize resources means to transform a document into digital format, which only adds a mode of using the resources but does not produce a new one.
- (medicine) To administer digitalis.
- 1951 January, Irving S. Wright, “The treatment of coronary thrombosis with myocardial infarction”, in Veterans Administration Technical Bulletins (10), volume IV, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 3:
- The dosage should be sufficient to produce satisfactory digitalization but it is our impression that it is less hazardous to digitalize with moderate rapidity than by using a massive dose.
Usage notes
Far less common than digitize.[1] According to Garner's Modern American Usage, a “needless variant”.[2]
Derived terms
Translations
make digital — see digitize
to administer digitalis
References
- Bryan Garner (2009) “digitize; digitalize”, in Garner's Modern American Usage, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 256
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