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Rhymes with -ɪdʒɪt

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Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-der.?

Latin digitusbor.

Middle English digit

English digit

Inherited from Middle English digit, borrowed from Latin digitus. Doublet of digitus and dedo.

A position in a sequence of numerals representing a place value in a positional number system. The base-10 number 123.4 has four digits: the hundreds digit is 1, the tens digit is 2, the units digit is 3, and the tenths digit is 4.
A distinct symbol representing a natural number in a positional number system. Hexadecimal numeration (Base sixteen) includes the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 but also A (=10 decimal), B, C, D, E, and F. Sixteen itself is written as the two-digit number 10.
¹⁄₁₂ the apparent diameter of the sun or moon, (chiefly) as a measure of the totality of an eclipse. A six-digit eclipse covers half the lunar surface.
historical A unit of length notionally based upon the width of an adult human finger, standardized differently in various places and times, (especially) the English digit of ¹⁄₁₆ foot, now equivalent to about 1.9 cm.
obsolete Synonym of inch.
A narrow extremity of the human hand or foot: a finger, thumb, or toe. Jai grabbed Andrew’s shoulders with the same three digits he had used to grab the ancient doubter’s skull and spun him around.
Similar or similar-looking structures in other animals. The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.
obsolete, rare Synonym of degree: ¹⁄₃₆₀ of a circle.
Synonym of manicule.