adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a digital camera (= an electronic camera that does not use film )
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The magazine has a review of the best digital cameras.
a digital channel (= using electronic signals sent out in the form of numbers )
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You can’t record one digital channel while watching another.
a digital clock (= that shows the time as numbers that keep changing )
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A digital clock at the finish line shows runners their times.
a digital photo
a digital photograph
a digital signal
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Digital signals can be compressed to take up less space.
digital divide
digital signature
digital technology
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Digital technology is bringing the media and communications sectors together.
digital television
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the switchover to digital television
digital television
digital watermark
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The card has a digital watermark detectable only by electronic cash dispensers.
personal digital assistant
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
age
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Bells had no place in the digital age .
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The broadcasters say they need both analog and digital channels for 15 years to ensure a smooth transition to the digital age .
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HyperCard was a primer for the digital age .
assistant
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Of course the other important contributing factor to the success of the personal digital assistant will be software.
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I expect these so-called personal digital assistants to dribble slowly out this year.
audio
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Claimed applications include image processing, digital video and digital audio .
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It also integrates PostScript graphics and fonts, supports PICs animations and QuickTime, and has digital audio .
business
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Significantly, it allows us to utilise our extensive content and brands in an already established digital business .
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The division will develop partnerships and joint ventures with third parties and will fast track digital businesses and development.
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Emap Digital provides us with an exceptional base for developing a scale digital business .
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Some of the larger digital businesses may in time trade with their own equity currencies.
camera
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It's solid, well-built and looks more like a conventional film camera than the other digital cameras featured in this test.
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The new QuickTake 200 is a digital camera that records photographs in computer memory.
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Digicam buying advice With digital cameras improving all the time, take some advice before buying.
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High-tech digital cameras are used extensively in astronomy to capture dim light from distant galaxies.
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I recently made one of the best investments with my digital camera .
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On the down side, affordable digital cameras have limited memory.
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For video work, I have used both a camcorder and a digital camera as a source.
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You also can use a digital camera , which records pictures electronically and uploads them straight to your computer without using film.
clock
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Her gold watch and her digital clock agree that it is nineteen minutes past eight.
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Smith looked at his watch, at the wall clock , at the digital clock.
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As she descended the escalator towards the platforms, she noticed the digital clock in the ceiling.
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I look at the digital clock , built into the bedside.
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As I move round I see the numerals of a digital clock .
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The digital clock was counting down towards the performance.
computer
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The general-purpose electronic digital computer Let us now try and define rather more precisely the type of device that we are considering.
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Awkward simulations on digital computers have given way to special processors and high-powered chips.
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A human neurone is about a million times slower than a switch in a digital computer .
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Later, electrically powered calculators and analog computers bridged the gap to the first primitive digital computers.
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Most research in the field has concentrated on modelling logical-sequential computation, which is well suited to general-purpose digital computers .
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Although digital computers have to simulate this parallelism, true neural network hardware will really perform the operations in parallel.
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But computer designers are still divided over GaAs's tactical value in world of digital computers.
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Of course the brain is a digital computer .
data
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For example, some types of multimedia applications will involve online systems which combine live television information with other digital data .
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A video program, once digitized, looks like any other digital data .
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These are then traced on a touch-sensitive drawing board to make digital data signals which are dumped in the computer memory.
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Computer power is becoming cheaper, digital data more readily available, and GISs are becoming hybrid systems involving other technologies.
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No conversion from analogue to digital data is needed.
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They also describe three digital data sets.
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These are Optical Disks which contain digital data .
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The network will initially support global voice, voice band data and circuit switched digital data services via dedicated or switched access.
divide
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Thankfully, efforts are already under way to bridge the digital divide .
form
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If we translate analogue information into a digital form , we can suddenly manipulate it freely in almost any way we wish.
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But more important, they stored their data in the digital form that computers so readily digest.
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An increasing amount of cartographic data is becoming available in digital form .
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The equipment compresses the radio signal into digital form , then adds buffers to make up for any sound lost in transmission.
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For thematic maps the principle cause of error is the original map document and its conversion to digital form .
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Without protection schemes, songs in digital form can be copied ad infinitum over the Internet.
image
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This is the place where the image is converted from light to a digital image in your camera.
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The information is then fed into a computer so that animators can bring the digital images to life as game characters.
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The later text, much darker in the picture than the earlier one, can then be edited out of this digital image .
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Want to experiment with digital images ?
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The digital images held in the memory banks are converted to television signals which are displayed on the monitor.
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This chapter contains an introduction to methods of digital image processing applied to Landsat image data.
information
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Many issues in multimedia involve the interplay between analogue and digital information .
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The new version of the software automatically indexes, stores and retrieves digital information .
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They require a great deal of digital information to describe them.
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Far from reflecting continuously varying values, digital information is based on just two distinct states.
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Swamping future historians with vast amounts of digital information may impede their research as they attempt to navigate through it.
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Instead, it allows the analogue and digital information to co-exist.
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This machine gives the computer digital information about the last's freeform surface.
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To further contrast analogue and digital information , we can return to our wristwatch parallel.
map
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He also helped start Etak Inc., a digital map maker in Menlo Park.
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A digital map is essentially a numerical description of these lines and symbols.
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The development of mathematical models to represent the uncertainty characteristics of digital map databases; 2.
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A single digital map currently costs £85.
media
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Still, there are technical obstacles to be overcome before a major shift from film to digital media can occur.
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The new digital media are still evolving.
music
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Time Warner has announced that it will open up a digital music download site developed in conjunction with RealNetworks.
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Anyone examining the tape with a computer would see only digital music .
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The future of digital music is a bit murky.
network
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The advantages of digital networks include more accurate transmissions as well as more versatile and economic employment of lines.
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The fiber-to-the-curb architecture provides high-capacity switched digital network services to optical network units serving multiple residences.
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Customers who want to roam from system to system may need a phone that works on both analog and digital networks .
phone
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They are planning a 100 percent digital phone system that will enable voice images and data to be carried on the line.
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According to industry officials, a new breed of digital phone transmits in computer code that is much more difficult to intercept.
recording
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The digital recording is good, although a bit lacking in sonority and colour.
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When binaural recording last found favour, 10 years ago, there was no low-cost digital recording equipment available.
service
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AirTouch has said the digital service could be ready as soon as this year.
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If you want to switch from one digital service to another, you will need a new phone.
signal
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MPEG-2 sets the standard for the compression of digital signals , the most complicated and expensive element of any digital broadcasting system.
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Time Division Multiple Access converts conversations into digital signals and assigns each one specific time slots.
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Sending such digital signals lends itself well to using light along optical fibres rather than electrical signals along copper wires.
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With digital signals , though, the problem is almost nonexistent.
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It enables your loudspeakers to produce music by converting the digital signal to an analog waveform.
signature
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It uses digital signatures and requires recipients to download free software to read the electronic postmark.
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Some one who uses different computers at home and at work will need two digital signatures .
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If the fingerprints do match, however, then Y can be quite sure that the digital signature is authentic.
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Already, even before digital signatures are widespread, we are afflicted with Pin and password overload.
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Therefore the digital signature verifies both the identity of the sender and the authenticity of the data in the document.
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Encryption techniques are used to verify digital signatures on business contracts.
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Unlike encryption, digital signatures are a recent development, the need for which has arisen with the proliferation of electronic commerce.
sound
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Call for a catalogue and discover the world of computer digital sound .
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The outfit comes with six speakers, including a subwoofer, a digital sound processor and a digital remote.
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What a pleasure it is to hear some of these pieces for the first time in clear digital sound !
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Recent shows at Ronnie Scott's saw blistering fretwork augmented by some snazzy digital sounds .
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So I washed it through a digital sound program.
system
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These are terms used in digital electronics to designate the basic logical operations on which digital systems are founded.
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At issue is the national switch from the current analog broadcast system to a digital system.
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Our present system is analogue and the requirement for computer system links and data transmission may justify changing to a digital system.
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It means the phone company will hook your house directly to its digital system .
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The reason is that, with a digital system , small variations do not corrupt the message.
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Cellular will have the same problem as its begins the move from analog networks to a digital system .
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The digital system is then transmitted along the channel of communication to the distant end.
tape
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The company had hired a standard Sony digital tape recorder which was hooked to Johnson's own analogue-to-digital conversion system.
technology
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Piper's use of digital technology is significant.
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Lehman said the shift from analogue to digital technology is increasing costs but without yet causing an increase in revenues.
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It is a schism which may have contributed to the stalled development of GaAs as an alternative in digital technology .
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Archivists are therefore thinking of combining digital technology with robust media.
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Can the demands of privacy withstand the advance of digital technology ?
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This approach works perfectly in the Digitopolis section which shows how digital technology will affect our lives.
telephone
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In brief, it is another kind of digital telephone connection.
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It also makes digital telephones being installed on jetliners.
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Inexpensive modems went inside PowerBooks to make them communications centers digital telephones and fax machines.
television
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Interference and ghost images caused by reflections of the received signal are more easily cancelled out in a digital television .
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Hey, how about that new digital television revolution?
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Color televisions evolve into digital televisions capable of showing several pictures simultaneously; videocassette recorders into camcorders.
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Then again, the transition to digital television could take much longer than expected.
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A digital television immediately decodes the incoming sound and picture signals and converts them into an 8-bit digital code.
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The potential bounty lies in a slice of the public airwaves designated to be the home of advanced, digital television .
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If a Federal Communications Commission deadline stands, the changeover from analog to digital television will be complete by 2006.
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People must buy either a new digital television or a converter box to use with their old set.
transmission
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Manufacturers currently are working to establish industry standards for digital transmission and reception of the signals.
video
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Claimed applications include image processing, digital video and digital audio.
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Our digital video strategy meandered around in the desert for 40 years.
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Digital cameras and digital video cameras began to appear last year.
watch
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Sir Clive, 51, also invented the pocket calculator, home computer and the digital watch .
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He must have watched his digital watch flick away each precious minute and second.
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You can synchronise your digital watch with the countdown to ensure you start exactly as the gun goes.
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He'd seen something rather more promising than digital watches under Mr Schofield's work bench, something in a small bag.
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Zoltan's company, Cyanamid, plans to license its pending patents to makers of digital watches .
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You can always tell some one who is using a digital watch .
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However, there is an instant when a digital watch is speechless.
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The working parts of a digital watch .
world
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The technology of virtual reality uses a computer to map a user's body and senses directly into a digital world .
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Within the digital world , however, there are even more acronyms to learn.
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Linking their changes to a digital world will be difficult.
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After Macintosh, these digital worlds began to weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life.
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The digital world of cyberspace can recreate complex natural structures or fashion totally new illusionistic environments.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a digital clock
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This camera can take digital pictures.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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AirTouch has said the digital service could be ready as soon as this year.
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As she descended the escalator towards the platforms, she noticed the digital clock in the ceiling.
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First, the new digital seismometers had unleashed upon geophysicists a flood of sensitive, accessible data.
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HyperCard was a primer for the digital age.
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In digital terms, the sky would normally require about 0.4 megabytes of data.
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The guru of the new digital Army is Gen.
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The same arguments for use of digital electronics apply equally to communications systems, test and measurement, broadcasting and consumer electronics.
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These are terms used in digital electronics to designate the basic logical operations on which digital systems are founded.