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DIGIT (Lat. digit us, finger)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 268 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DIGIT (Lat. digit us, finger)

DIGIT (See also:
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Lat. digit us, See also:
FINGER
finger) , literally a See also:

FINGER

finger or toe, and so used to mean, from counting on the fingers, a single See also:

NUMERAL (from Lat. numerus, a number)

numeral, or, from measuring, a finger's breadth . In See also:

ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy a See also:

DIGIT (Lat. digit us, finger)

digit is the twelfth See also:

PART

part of the See also:

DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

diameter of the See also:

sun or See also:

moon; it is used to See also:

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express the magnitude of an See also:

ECLIPSE (Gr. €uheo,tis, falling out of place, failing)

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