digitize

verb

dig·​i·​tize ˈdi-jə-ˌtīz 

digitized; digitizing

transitive verb

: to convert (something, such as data or an image) to digital form

digitizer

ˈdi-jə-ˌtī-zər 

noun

Examples of digitize in a Sentence

The record company digitized the songs and made them available on the Internet.

Recent Examples on the Web

Our real estate data comes from public records that have been registered and digitized by local county offices. — Bay Area Home Report, Mercury News, 10 July 2026

Yangten Rinpoche is currently digitizing the entire canon of the 14th Dalai Lama’s teachings, comprising over 110 books, and is looking into coalescing that wisdom into an AI agent which people can solicit for his spiritual advice. — Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026

Stablecoins digitized claims on dollars, growing from a fringe experiment into a system that settles trillions of dollars a year. — Mia Gindis, Fortune, 9 July 2026

Founded in 2021 as a wholesale marketplace for preloved fashion, Fleek has lately reframed itself as an AI native that wants to use AI to digitize how the global secondhand fashion market works. — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 9 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1953, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for digitize

• advertise
• aggrandize
• alibis
• alkalies
• alkalis
• amortize
• amplifies
• analyse
• analyze
• anywise
• authorize
• butterflies

Kids Definition

digitize

verb

dig·​i·​tize ˈdij-ə-ˌtīz 

digitized; digitizing

: to change (as data or an image) to digital form

digitizer noun