as in number
a character used to represent a mathematical value you only need to fill in the last two digits of the year in which you were born

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Recent Examples of digit That also marks Onvo’s first month of delivery in the five-digit range. Victoria Yeo, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025 Despite his pitch count nearing triple digits, Melvin said there was no conversation about Verlander’s day ending early. Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025 In some cases, the last four digits of Social Security numbers. Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 2025 According to Farmers, among the information compromised in the breach there are customers' names, addresses, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers. Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for digit
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Noun
  • Given the number of works Apple may have infringed upon, the plaintiffs, Hendrix and Roberson, have requested the court to turn their complaint into a class action and block the company from further infringement of this kind.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Two pass interference flags skewed those numbers — their nine penalties were not a record under Sirianni, although their six defensive penalties tied for the most — but it was not lost on Sirianni that all Cowboys scoring drives included an Eagles penalty.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
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  • Algorithms are old—around 300 B.C., Euclid invented one for finding the greatest common divisor of two integers.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The curriculum tackles a small number of seminal topics in each school year—like ratio and proportion or the concept of integers—and teaches these deeply from multiple angles.
    Linda Darling-Hammond, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025

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“Digit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digit. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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