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Digititus

The result of improper premarital interdigitation, usually resulting in extreme inflammation and irritation of the proximal, intermediate, and on rare occasions the distal phalanges.
Dude, why you holdin hands with that ho. You gonna get you some digititus.
by Handmeister S. September 26, 2008
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digitize

(Didg-it-ize) :verb: To convert from analogue format to digital format. Common digitizers include drawing tablets, and digital recorders (including digital cameras and camcorders as well as pure audio recorders and scanners.)

Since anything in the real world is analogue, digitizing refers to storing this data as binary numbers. Any method which records something and saves it onto a computer is a digitizing method.

There is no implication of altering the content within a digitizing process except where technology limits the recording. For example, a picture taken with a digital camera will not be of the same resolution as reality, but rather as close an approximation as the technology allows. Just as digitizing an old record will usually drop the very top and bottom ranges of the sound.

Digitizing is always a lossy conversion because an exact approximation is not possible with such a limited amount of space for the huge amount of data analogue methods hold. Once an item is digitized, it will never lose quality on re-recordings or play back because of the method of storage. With high-quality digitizers, the difference between the original analogue source and the digital recording is not percievable by human senses.
We've digitized our family photo album to preserve the images.

I digitized some old recordings I had on records so I could play them in my cd player.

An artist was digitizing simulated brush strokes interpreted by a computer program with a drawing tablet.
by Michael Hamilton July 8, 2005
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digicide

The intention, systematic killing of digital pets. Done so via abusing digital pets, overfeeding them, or by simply resetting the handheld ones.
23:10 perragorn: This Mark Fagan kid let me play with his for a few minutes and i fed it like 90 meals in 4 minutes so it died
23:11 perragorn: and he was like "awwwww my friend was going to give me 10 dollars if I raised it the right way."
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23:11 perragorn: Like that?
23:11 Nathan: digicide!!!
by desPERRYado April 29, 2006
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digitization laser

a device used to transport objects from the analog universe (the real world) into a digital realm (world inside the computer)
Both the MCP and Ma3a used digitization lasers to transport humans to the digital world.
by Bonzer Tucker May 26, 2004
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digiting up

To digit, to digit up; gettting older, to age.
I am almost 40 so I am digiting up. Or I am digiting upward.
by kat51 March 18, 2009
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digihead

a real ace at technology and maths
He is a digihead in our department, but is not very good at relating to people.
by penelopa85 November 29, 2012
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digiphile

Someone who prefers the digital world or digital things.
"Don't bother sending Jamie a birthday card. He's such a digiphile. You're better off just saying 'happy birthday' on his Facebook or in an email."
by jlarson November 4, 2015
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