DIGITIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does digitize mean? 

• DIGITIZE (verb)
  The verb DIGITIZE has 1 sense:

1. put into digital form, as for use in a computer

  Familiarity information: DIGITIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIGITIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they digitize    ... he / she / it digitizes   
Past simple: digitized   
Past participle: digitized   
-ing form: digitizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put into digital form, as for use in a computer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

digitalise; digitalize; digitise; digitize

Context example:

he bought a device to digitize the data

Hypernyms (to "digitize" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

digit (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)

digitization (conversion of analog information into digital information)

digitizer (device for converting analogue signals into digital signals)

 Context examples 

A frequency equal to half the sampling rate used in digitizing a continuously varying process.

(Nyquist Frequency, NCI Thesaurus)

The background image is determined from a digitized image taken a few moments before injection of the contrast material.

(Digital Subtraction Angiography, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)