digital di‧gi‧tal [ˈdɪdʒtl] adjective
1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS digital electronic equipment receives sound and pictures from binary electrical signals (= signals using the numbers 0 and 1):
• a digital camera
• a recording on digital audiotape
2. MARKETING relating to a business activity that uses the Internet:
• the digital marketing industry
3. the digital divide COMPUTING TELECOMMUNICATIONS the difference between the people that own computers and know how to use the Internet and those that do not
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digital UK US /ˈdɪdʒɪtəl/ adjective
► IT, COMMUNICATIONS using a system that can be used by a computer and other electronic equipment, in which information is sent and received in electronic form as a series of the numbers 1 and 0: »
digital content/data/information
»digital camera/photography/image
»digital television/TV/radio
»After the switchover all our TV channels went digital.
► IT, INTERNET relating to computer technology, especially the internet: »
The business has invested heavily in the latest digital technology.
»In the digital world, the tools available to a marketer are utterly different.
»The magazine that year ranked YouTube as one of its top ten digital brands.
► showing information as whole numbers rather than in another form such as a picture, graph, etc.: »
The unit has a clear digital display showing the temperature and humidity.
»a digital watch/clock/alarm clock
digitally /ˈdɪdʒɪtəli/ adverb
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The system captures CCTV images and stores them digitally on hard disk.
Financial and business terms. 2012.