To convert information or a signal into digital form.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- digitize a document
- digitize a signal
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The archive digitized the document without changing its wording.
The signal was digitized at the stated sampling resolution.
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Word forms
- Base
- digitize
- Past tense
- digitized
- Past participle
- digitized
- Present participle
- digitizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- digitize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are digitizing
- Present perfect
- have/has digitized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been digitizing
- Past
- digitized
- Past continuous
- was/were digitizing
- Past perfect
- had digitized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been digitizing
- Future
- will digitize
- Future continuous
- will be digitizing
- Future perfect
- will have digitized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been digitizing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: digitize; digitizes; digitized; digitized; digitizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: institutional and conceptual change, philosophical orientation, qualification of recurrence and degree. Disciplines: academic writing, philosophy, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: digitizes.
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