verb

digitize

to digitise

We need to digitize these old photos.

We need to digitise these old photos.

The company is digitizing its records.

The company is digitising its records.

((sth.)) to convert (sth.) into a digital format They will digitise the entire library collection.

Synonyms: computerise, scan, convert to digital format

From 'digit' (a number) and the suffix '-ize' (to make or become). Literally, 'to make into digits'.

Think of 'digits' as the numbers 0 and 1 that computers use. To 'digitize' is to turn something into that computer-readable format.

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