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Digit

noun

One of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration. Synonym: figure.

The length of breadth of a finger used as a linear measure. Synonyms: finger, finger's breadth, fingerbreadth.

A finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates. Synonym: dactyl.

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"Digit" Quotes from Famous Books

... young lady!" He indicated the column with the plunging pressure of a stubby digit, and stood so close to her, while she toiled up the line of figures, that ...

— When Egypt Went Broke • Holman Day

... himself an object of general curiosity as yet. There had hardly been time for his name to have become very widely known. Still, the feeling had been pleasant for the moment, and had given him an idea of what the rapture would be, when, wherever he went, the monster digit (to hint a classical phrase) of the collective admiring public would be lifted to point him out, and the whisper would pass from one to another, "That's ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... made of it, it is astonishing how persistent the habit may become, surviving all attempts to forbid it, to break it by rewards or punishments, or to render it distasteful by the application of a variety of ill-tasting substances smeared on the offending digit. ...

— The Nervous Child • Hector Charles Cameron

... think, be considered to be in a rudimentary condition. This afternoon my gardener brought in some tadpoles with the hind-legs alone developed, and I looked at the rudiment. At this age it certainly looks extremely like a digit, for the extremity is enlarged like that of the adjoining real toe, and the transverse articulation seems similar. I am sorry that the case is doubtful, for if these batrachians had six toes, I certainly think it would have thrown ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

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