单词 | digit |
释义 | digit (once / 391 pages) n If you want to sound smart, you can refer to your finger, thumb, or toe as a digit. Each of the numbers from 0 to 9 is another kind of digit. Although your pinkie toe may seem to be completely unrelated to the number three, each is a kind of digit. In fact, the practice of calling numbers digits comes from the digits on your hands — specifically, the habit of counting to ten on your fingers. The Latin root word digitus means "finger or toe," and English borrowed from this to mean "number." WORD FAMILYdigit: digital, digitise, digitize, digits+/digital: digitalise, digitalize, digitally/digitalise: digitalisation/digitalize: digitalization, digitalized/digitise: digitisation, digitised, digitiser, digitising/digitize: digitization, digitized, digitizer, digitizes, digitizing USAGE EXAMPLESNorth Carolina twice cut the deficit back to single digits down the stretch but got no closer than seven. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) More notably, 2017 is the smallest whole number whose cube root begins with ten distinct digits: The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) One Facebook broker, Acxiom, requires people to send the last four digits of their social security number to obtain their data. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates Syn|Hypo|Hyper dactyl minimus the fifth digit; the little finger or little toe fingerany of the terminal members of the hand (sometimes excepting the thumb) toeone of the digits of the foot pollex, thumbthe thick short innermost digit of the forelimb forefinger, index, index fingerthe finger next to the thumb annualry, ring fingerthe third finger (especially of the left hand) middle fingerthe second finger; between the index finger and the ring finger little finger, pinkie, pinkythe finger farthest from the thumb big toe, great toe, halluxthe first largest innermost toe hammertoea deformed toe which is bent in a clawlike arch little toethe fifth smallest outermost toe appendage, extremity, member an external body part that projects from the body 2n one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration 0 and 1 are digits Syn|Hypo|Hyper figure binary digit either 0 or 1 in binary notation octal digita digit from 0 to 7 in octal notation decimal digita digit from 0 to 9 in decimal notation duodecimal digita digit from 0 to 11 in duodecimal notation hexadecimal digita digit from 0 to 15 in hexadecimal notation significant digit, significant figureany digit of a number that is known with certainty; any digit of a number beginning with the leftmost non-zero digit and ending with the rightmost non-zero digit (or a zero considered to be the exact value) 0, cipher, cypher, nought, zeroa mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number 1, I, ace, one, single, unitythe smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number 2, II, deuce, twothe cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number 3, III, deuce-ace, leash, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troikathe cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one 4, IV, Little Joe, four, foursome, quadruplet, quartet, quatern, quaternary, quaternion, quaternity, tetradthe cardinal number that is the sum of three and one 5, Little Phoebe, Phoebe, V, cinque, fin, five, fivesome, pentad, quint, quintet, quintupletthe cardinal number that is the sum of four and one 6, Captain Hicks, VI, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixerthe cardinal number that is the sum of five and one 7, VII, heptad, septenary, septet, seven, sevenerthe cardinal number that is the sum of six and one 8, VIII, eight, eighter, eighter from Decatur, octad, octet, octonary, ogdoadthe cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one 9, IX, Nina from Carolina, ennead, nine, ninerthe cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one monad, monasa singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive singletona single object (as distinguished from a pair) craps, snake eyesexpressions used when when two dice are thrown and both come up showing one spot brace, couple, couplet, distich, duad, duet, duo, dyad, pair, span, twain, twosome, yoketwo items of the same kind integer, whole number any of the natural numbers (positive or negative) or zero 3n the length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure Syn|Hyper finger, finger's breadth, fingerbreadth linear measure, linear unit a unit of measurement of length |
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