Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits.

Technology and computing

Hardware

Digital electronics Digital electronics is a field of electronics involving the study of digital signals and the engineering of devices that use or produce them. This is in contrast to analog electronics and analog signals. Digital electronic circuits are usual ...

, electronic circuits which operate using digital signals **

Digital camera A digital camera is a camera that captures photographs in digital memory. Most cameras produced today are digital, largely replacing those that capture images on photographic film. Digital cameras are now widely incorporated into mobile device ...

, which captures and stores digital images ***

Digital versus film photography Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Technology and computing Hardware *Digital electronics, electronic circuits which operate using digital signals **Digital camera, which captures and stores digital i ...

Digital computer A computer is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations ( computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs. These pro ...

, a computer that handles information represented by discrete values **

Digital recording In digital recording, an audio or video signal is converted into a stream of discrete numbers representing the changes over time in air pressure for audio, or chroma and luminance values for video. This number stream is saved to a storage de ...

, information recorded using a digital signal

Socioeconomic phenomena

Digital culture Internet culture is a culture based on the many way people have used computer networks and their use for communication, entertainment, business, and recreation. Some features of Internet culture include online communities, gaming, and social media ...

, the anthropological dimension of the digital social changes *

Digital divide The digital divide is the unequal access to digital technology, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the internet. The digital divide creates a division and inequality around access to information and resources. In the Information Age in ...

, a form of economic and social inequality in access to or use of information and communication technologies *

Digital economy The digital economy is a portmanteau of digital computing and economy, and is an umbrella term that describes how traditional Brick and mortar, brick-and-mortar economic activities (production, distribution, trade) are being transformed by Interne ...

, an economy based on computing and telecommunications resources

Other uses in technology and computing

Digital data Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols each of which can take on one of only a finite number of values from some alphabet, such as letters or digits. An example i ...

, discrete data, usually represented using binary numbers *

Digital marketing Digital marketing is the component of marketing that uses the Internet and online based digital technologies such as desktop computers, mobile phones and other digital media and platforms to promote products and services. Its development duri ...

, search engine & social media presence booster, usually represented using online visibility. *

Digital media Digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device. ' ...

, media stored as digital data **

Digital radio Digital radio is the use of digital technology to transmit or receive across the radio spectrum. Digital transmission by radio waves includes digital broadcasting, and especially digital audio radio services. Types In digital broadcasting syst ...

, which uses digital technology to transmit or receive **

Digital television Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier analog television technology which used analog signals. At the time of its development it was considered an innovative advanc ...

, television systems which broadcast using digital signals *

Digital signal (electronics) A digital signal is a signal that represents data as a sequence of discrete values; at any given time it can only take on, at most, one of a finite number of values. This contrasts with an analog signal, which represents continuous values; at ...

, signals formed from a discrete set of waveforms, rather than continuous ranges *

Digital signal (signal processing) In the context of digital signal processing (DSP), a digital signal is a discrete time, quantized amplitude signal. In other words, it is a sampled signal consisting of samples that take on values from a discrete set (a countable set that can b ...

, sampled analog signals represented as a sequence of digital values

Art, entertainment, and media

*'' Digital: A Love Story'' (2010), an indie video game by Christine Love * ''Digital'' (album), an album by KRS-One * "Digital" (Goldie song) (1998) * "Digital" (Joy Division song) (1978) *"

Digital (Did You Tell) "Digital (Did You Tell)" is the second single from Stone Sour's third album ''Audio Secrecy''. The two-track promo single for the song, released strictly to radio in 2011. Background Regarding the lyrical inspiration for "Digital (Did You Tell)" ...

", a song by Stone Sour (2010) *"Digital", a song by Soulja Boy from ''

The DeAndre Way ''The DeAndre Way'' is the third studio album by American rapper Soulja Boy. It was released on November 30, 2010, by his label Stacks on Deck Entertainment, Collipark Music and Interscope Records. Background At the time, Soulja Boy stated that ...

'' *"Digital", a song by T-Pain from ''

Three Ringz ''Three Ringz'' (stylized as ''Thr33 Ringz'') is the third studio album by American R&B singer T-Pain, It was released on November 11, 2008, by his record label Nappy Boy Entertainment (under the distribution of Akon's label Konvict Muzik, Jive R ...

'' *

Digital painting Digital painting is an established art medium that typically combines a computer, a graphics tablet, and software of choice. The artist uses painting and drawing with the stylus that comes with the graphics tablet to create 2D paintings within a ...

, a method of creating visual art using computers

Brands and enterprises

Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president unt ...

(DEC) or Digital, a computer company *

Digital Research Digital Research, Inc. (DR or DRI) was a company created by Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit systems like MP/M, Concurrent DOS, FlexOS, Multiuser DOS, DOS Plus, DR DOS and ...

(DR or DRI), a software company

Other uses

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finger A finger is a limb of the body and a type of digit, an organ of manipulation and sensation found in the hands of most of the Tetrapods, so also with humans and other primates. Most land vertebrates have five fingers ( Pentadactyly). Chambers ...

s **

Digital exam Digital rectal examination (DRE; la, palpatio per anum, PPA) is an internal examination of the rectum, performed by a healthcare provider. Prior to a 2018 report from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the DRE was a common and "dreaded" co ...

, in proctology *

Digital bank A neobank (also known as an online bank, internet-only bank, virtual bank or digital bank) is a type of direct bank that operates exclusively online without traditional physical branch networks. The term "challenger bank" is used in the UK to re ...

or Neobank *

Digital Party The Digital Party ( es, Partido Digital) is a Uruguayan political party. Founded in 2013 and registered in 2018, they advocate for political transparency and direct engagement of the citizens via social networks and other e-democracy tools. Othe ...

, a political party in Uruguay *

Vitalis Takawira Vitalis "Digital" Takawira (born September 24, 1972 in Salisbury) is a retired Zimbabwean football player. He has played forward and attacking midfield professionally in Zimbabwe, Switzerland and the United States, as well as for the Zimbabwe n ...

or Digital, professional football player