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 Summer Pool Season Pool season is just starting in Vegas, and with summer temps often hitting the triple digits, outdoor swimming spots are in high demand. Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2025 Humidity will pick up toward the weekend as well, bringing heat indices up to the triple digits in the interior. Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 12 May 2025 Entering play, Hicks had touched triple digits on two occasions during his time with the Giants. Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025 Triple-digit fastballs in the strike zone all spring will get a pitcher the longest looks possible. Grant Brisbee, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for digit
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Noun
  • Going forward, the software upgrades will be named after the year, rather than taking the number after that of the previous release.
    Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • But Song refuses to stack the deck, including a comparable number of women whose rigid demands significantly narrow the market.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
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  • Graphically, this can be represented a little better if ∅ symbolizes the empty set: 0 = ∅ 1 = {0} = {∅} 2 = {0, 1} = {∅, {∅}} 3 = {0, 1, 2} = {∅, {∅}, {∅, {∅}}} Zermelo has thus laid the foundations for integers.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 May 2025
  • The software ran an instance that forced it to convert a floating-point number into an integer.
    Korok Ray, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025

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“Digit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/digit. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.

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