digit

digit is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger or toe.
2. noun. A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three fourths of an inch.
3. noun. One of the ten figures or symbols, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, by which all numbers are expressed; -- so called because of the use of the fingers in counting and computing.
4. noun. One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.
5. transitive verb. To point at or out with the finger.
6. noun. a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates

   Synonyms: dactyl

7. noun. the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure

   Synonyms: finger, fingerbreadth

8. noun. one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration

   "0 and 1 are digits"

   Synonyms: figure

Synonyms

dactyl, finger, fingerbreadth, figure

Common word forms

digits, digital, digitise, digitize

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