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digitisation

nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: digitisations

Digitisation is turning printed material into computer files. Fund the digitisation.

The scanning is the easy part, and describing what has been scanned is the expensive one. Digitisation without cataloguing produces a pile nobody can search.

Dvortygirl · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of digitisation

  1. 1noundigitisationTurning printed material into computer files.B2

    “The digitisation project ran for eleven years.”

digitisation is a process.

Also accepted in games: digitization

Where it comes from

From digitise + -ation.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Libraries & Museums

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