digit

• n. 數字；手指或足趾；一指寬

來自PIE*deik, 指出，說話，詞源同dictionary,teach. 用於指手指，後也用於指數數，數字。

digit

digit: [15] Digit was borrowed from Latin digitus. This meant ‘finger or toe’, but its underlying etymological sense is probably ‘pointer’; it appears to come from an Indo-European base *deik-, which also produced Latin dicere ‘say’ (originally ‘point out’), Greek deiknúnai ‘show’, Sanskrit diç- ‘show’, and possibly English toe.

The word was used in classical times for a measure of length, a ‘finger’s breadth’, but the mathematical sense ‘any of the numbers from 0 to 9’ (originally as counted on the fingers) is a later development. Digitalis [17], the scientific name of the ‘foxglove’, is a modern Latin use of the Latin adjective digitālis ‘of the finger’, perhaps in allusion to the foxglove’s German name fingerhut ‘thimble’, literally ‘finger-hat’.
=> toe

digit (n.)

late 14c., "numeral below 10," from Latin digitus "finger or toe" (also with secondary meanings dealing in counting and numerals), related to dicere "tell, say, point out" (see diction). Numerical sense is because numerals under 10 were counted on fingers. The "finger or toe" sense in English is attested from 1640s.

1. Australia had 15 years of double-digit inflation.

澳大利亞有15年通貨膨脹率維持在兩位數。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Her telephone number differs from mine by one digit.

她的電話號碼和我的隻差一個數字。

來自辭典例句

3. The computer can multiply two 10 - digit numbers in 1 / 1000 second.

計算機能在千分之一秒內算出兩個十位數數字的乘積.

來自辭典例句

4. I cannot see more than that, except beyond plankton is the digit zero.

再往遠處我就什麽也看不見了.隻見浮遊生物之外是零這個數字.

來自英漢文學 - 廊橋遺夢

5. He mentally computed the square root of a hundred - digit number in fifty - two minutes .

他在 52分鍾 內心算出了一個100位數的平方根.

來自辭典例句