digital

In electronics and computing, a term meaning ‘coded as numbers’. A digital system uses two-state, either on/off or high/low voltage pulses, to encode, receive, and transmit information. A digital display shows discrete values as numbers (as opposed to an analogue signal, such as the continuous sweep of a pointer on a dial).

Digital electronics is the technology that underlies digital techniques. Low-power, miniature, integrated circuits (chips) provide the means for the coding, storage, transmission, processing, and reconstruction of information of all kinds.

digital

In music, method of sound recording in which audio signals are converted into a series of electronically represented pulses, determined by the voltage of the sound. This information can be stored for reproduction or manipulation in the case of composition in the electronic medium.