DIGIT

Digit

A digit is one of several most distal parts of a limb, such as fingers or toes, present in many vertebrates.

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digit

Noun

  1. A finger or toe.
  2. A numeral that can be combined with others to write larger numbers, and that cannot itself be split into other numerals.
    The digits of the decimal number system are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, and those in the hexadecimal number system are those in the decimal system along with A, B, C, D, E and F.
    The number 2307 has four digits: the thousands digit is 2; the hundreds digit is 3; the tens digit is 0; and the units digit is 7.
  3. One's phone number.
    That girl likes me — she gave me her digits.
  4. A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three quarters of an inch.
  5. A twelfth of the diameter of the Sun or Moon; used to express the quantity of an eclipse.
    An eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.

Verb

  1. To point at or point out with the finger.


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