digitize

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English digit Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English digitize From digit + -ize.

1. To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.

   “When you digitize a visual image, you are translating it into digital signals so that it can be broken down into pixels and loaded into the computer.”

   “According to press releases and university librarians, Google plans to digitize and make available through its Google Books service approximately 15 million volumes within a decade.”

2. To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
3. To finger.

   “to digitize a pen”