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/dˈɪdʒət/ /dˈɪdʒɪt/ Listen

noun

digit n.

(Zool.) One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. "The ruminants have the "cloven foot," i. e., two hoofed digits on each foot."

A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.

(Math.) 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. Note: By some authorities the symbol 0 is not included with the digits.

(Anat.) 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.

verb

digit v. t. To point at or out with the finger. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Digit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Digit" Quotes from Famous Books

... consist of a proximal joint of one bone an intermediate part of two, and a distal portion which has five digits, or is evidently a reduced form of the five-digit limb.* ...

— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells

... has its proper place, Each potion in its chalice; Her daedal fingers are so deft, They call her digit-Alice. ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various

... August. She was greatly emaciated, and had almost a total loss of appetite. I first tried small doses of Merc. sublim. corr. in solution, with decoction of burdock roots, and blisters to the thighs. No advantage attending the use of this plan, I directed a decoction of Fol. Digit. a dram and half to a pint; one ounce to be taken twice a day. It presently reduced the anasarcous swellings, but made no alteration in the ...

— An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses - With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases • William Withering

... DIGIT. A twelfth part of the diameter; a term employed to denote the magnitude of an eclipse; as, so many ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... being sufficiently developed to reach the ground. In Anchitherium, again (fig. 230, B), the foot is three-toed, like that of Hipparion; but the two lateral toes (the second and fourth) are so far developed that they now reach the ground. The first digit (thumb or great toe) is still wanting; as also is the fifth digit (little finger or little toe). Lastly, the Eocene rocks have yielded in North America the remains of a small Equine quadruped, to which Marsh has given the name of Orohippus. ...

— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson

... and somehow the silence was clamorous. Calhoun rubbed his nose reflectively with his finger. Murgatroyd, bright-eyed, immediately rubbed his nose with a tiny dark digit. Like all tormals, he gloried in imitating human actions, as parrots and parakeets imitate human speech. But suddenly a second voice called in, with a ...

— The Hate Disease • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... although the words, of course, were beyond Shotaye's comprehension. In return she pointed to the west again, made the conventional sign for night and sleep, and began to count her fingers. As she bent the eighth digit the Tehua stopped her, held up every finger of the right hand and three of the left, described, as if in confirmation eight times, an arch from east to west, and concluded by pointing to the north, ...

— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier

... fingers, each of which bears on the back of its last joint a broad and flattened nail. The longest cleft between any two digits is rather less than half as long as the hand. From the outer side of the base of the palm a stout digit goes off, having only two joints instead of three; so short, that it only reaches to a little beyond the middle of the first joint of the finger next it; and further remarkable by its great mobility, in consequence of which it can be directed outwards, almost ...

— On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals • Thomas H. Huxley