digitalize

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

digital + -ize (to make) or digitalis + -ize

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌdɪdʒɪtəˈlaɪz/

Verb

digitalize (third-person singular simple present digitalizes, present participle digitalizing, simple past and past participle digitalized)

  1. (computing, transitive) Synonym of digitize
    • 2004, Tom Mendina, Johannes J. Britz, editors, Information Ethics in the Electronic Age [] , McFarland, →ISBN, page 89:
      How to lawfully digitalize resources has become the principal issue in constructing digital libraries. To digitalize resources means to transform a document into digital format, which only adds a mode of using the resources but does not produce a new one.
  2. (medicine) To administer digitalis.
    • 1951 January, Irving S. Wright, “The treatment of coronary thrombosis with myocardial infarction”, in Veterans Administration Technical Bulletins (10), volume IV, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 3:
      The dosage should be sufficient to produce satisfactory digitalization but it is our impression that it is less hazardous to digitalize with moderate rapidity than by using a massive dose.

Usage notes

Far less common than digitize.[1] According to Garner's Modern American Usage, a “needless variant”.[2]

Derived terms

Translations

References

  1. (digitize+digitise), (digitalize+digitalise) at Google Ngram Viewer
  2. Bryan Garner (2009) “digitize; digitalize”, in Garner's Modern American Usage, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 256

Portuguese

Verb

digitalize

  1. inflection of digitalizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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