Noun: digit
| Singular | digit |
| Plural | digits |
Sample Sentences
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The base-10 number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.
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This meter is a 3½ digit digital multimeter that is rugged, reliable and convenient to use, while providing all of the accuracy and features needed for any application. [2017 October 26, “DIGITAL MULTIMETER M-1000E”, in Elenco, page 4:]
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Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.
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A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.
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Jai grabbed Andrew’s shoulders with the same three digits he had used to grab the ancient doubter’s skull and spun him around. [2018, Shiv Kotecha, The Switch, United States: Wonder, →ISBN, page 144:]
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The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot. [1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates:]
Nouns inflected like digit
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English digit, from Latin digitus (“a finger; a number”). Doublet of digitus and dedo. See: Middle English Nouns '
digit', Latin Nouns '
digitus'.
Verbs referencing "digit"
French Nouns
digit, Romanian Nouns
digit.