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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Latin
Origin: digitus 'finger, toe'

digit

 noun
     
Related topics: Human, Maths, Numbers
di‧git [countable]
1HMN one of the written signs that represent the numbers 0 to 9
three-digit/four-digit etc number
4305 is a four-digit number.
2HBH technical a finger or toe
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