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Digit   /dˈɪdʒət/  /dˈɪdʒɪt/   Listen
Digit

noun
1.
One of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration.  Synonym: figure.
2.
The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure.  Synonyms: finger, finger's breadth, fingerbreadth.
3.
A finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates.  Synonym: dactyl.



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"Digit" Quotes from Famous Books



... consist of a proximal joint of one bone an intermediate part of two, and a distal portion which has five digits, or is evidently a reduced form of the five-digit limb.* ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells

... has its proper place, Each potion in its chalice; Her daedal fingers are so deft, They call her digit-Alice. ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various

... August. She was greatly emaciated, and had almost a total loss of appetite. I first tried small doses of Merc. sublim. corr. in solution, with decoction of burdock roots, and blisters to the thighs. No advantage attending the use of this plan, I directed a decoction of Fol. Digit. a dram and half to a pint; one ounce to be taken twice a day. It presently reduced the anasarcous swellings, but made no alteration in the ...
— An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses - With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases • William Withering

... DIGIT. A twelfth part of the diameter; a term employed to denote the magnitude of an eclipse; as, so many ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... being sufficiently developed to reach the ground. In Anchitherium, again (fig. 230, B), the foot is three-toed, like that of Hipparion; but the two lateral toes (the second and fourth) are so far developed that they now reach the ground. The first digit (thumb or great toe) is still wanting; as also is the fifth digit (little finger or little toe). Lastly, the Eocene rocks have yielded in North America the remains of a small Equine quadruped, to which Marsh has given the name of Orohippus. ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson

... and somehow the silence was clamorous. Calhoun rubbed his nose reflectively with his finger. Murgatroyd, bright-eyed, immediately rubbed his nose with a tiny dark digit. Like all tormals, he gloried in imitating human actions, as parrots and parakeets imitate human speech. But suddenly a second voice called in, with a ...
— The Hate Disease • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... although the words, of course, were beyond Shotaye's comprehension. In return she pointed to the west again, made the conventional sign for night and sleep, and began to count her fingers. As she bent the eighth digit the Tehua stopped her, held up every finger of the right hand and three of the left, described, as if in confirmation eight times, an arch from east to west, and concluded by pointing to the north, ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier



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