digitize

[ dij-i-tahyz ]

/ ˈdɪdʒ ɪˌtaɪz /

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verb (used with object), dig·i·tized, dig·i·tiz·ing.Computers.

to convert (data) to digital form for use in a computer.

to convert (analogous physical measurements) to digital form.

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Also digitalize; especially British, dig·i·tise .

Origin of digitize

First recorded in 1950–55; digit + -ize

OTHER WORDS FROM digitize

dig·i·ti·za·tion, noundig·i·tiz·er, noun

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How to use digitize in a sentence

Industries like hospitality, retail, transportation, and even human resources have been digitized and platformized.
Can the Ownership Economy Fix Internet Platforms?|Singularity Hub Staff|November 12, 2020|Singularity Hub
Winning teams, winning software entrepreneurs, they understand this well, and they’d be wise to examine every step of this process, and instrument it and digitize it.
Greylock’s Asheem Chandna on ‘shifting left’ in cybersecurity and the future of enterprise startups|Danny Crichton|November 11, 2020|TechCrunch
Amazon to invest $1 billion to help digitize small businesses in IndiaAmazon, Google and Microsoft have explored various ways to expand the reach of their cloud services in India.
Amazon to invest $2.8 billion to build its second data center region in India|Manish Singh|November 6, 2020|TechCrunch
Although Zoom can bring faces and voices together, it fails to digitize that creative environment over our Wi-Fi connections.
Why Zoom Isn’t the Future of Work|Tracy Moran|October 26, 2020|Ozy

Zhang noted that as of Monday all of Sun Art’s nearly 500 physical stores will be fully integrated with Alibaba’s online platform and that Sun Art had achieved “impressive results” in digitizing its offerings since Alibaba’s first investment in 2017.
China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba is expanding its brick-and-mortar empire|Grady McGregor|October 19, 2020|Fortune
There have been many reactions to the digitization of our lives, like the resurgence of vinyl and the entire Maker movement.
Blurred Lines at NY Sketchbook Museum|Daniel Genis|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Thanks to the digitization of entertainment goods and the advent of 3-D printing, a host of new applications are possible.
Font of Invention||September 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Have you seen much of a digitization of things that historians care about?
The Real Legacy of Richard Nixon|Scott Porch|August 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Digitization has also made updating the dictionary far easier.
The Oxford English Dictionary: The Original Crowdsourcer|Josh Dzieza|April 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for digitize

digitize

digitise

/ (ˈdɪdʒɪˌtaɪz) /

verb

(tr) to transcribe (data) into a digital form so that it can be directly processed by a computer

Derived forms of digitize

digitization or digitisation, noundigitizer or digitiser, noun

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