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# digit

«digit» in Mova's school dictionary: **one of the ten signs 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (digit, digits)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A digit is one of the ten signs 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 that we use to write numbers. The number 47 has two digits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/#m1)

2) A digit is also a finger or a toe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/#m2)

3) «Digital» things work with numbers inside, like computers and digital clocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: the signs that make up a number; problems ask about the tens digit, the ones digit, two-digit and three-digit numbers, the sum of the digits, or the largest number made from some digits; place value. In everyday life: a phone number or a PIN has digits; a digital clock shows the time in digits. Phrases: «two-digit number», «the tens digit», «single digits».

### examples

- Write the largest two-digit number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/#x1)
- The tens digit of 58 is 5. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/#x2)
- Make a three-digit number using the digits 3, 7 and 1. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/#x3)
- What is the sum of the digits of 246? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/#x4)
- My PIN has four digits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/#x5)
- The temperature is in single digits today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/#x6)
- Humans have five digits on each hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/#x7)
- A digital clock shows the time as digits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/#x8)

### note

There are 10 digits, 0 to 9, but every number can be written with them. Maths: names a place in a number, not an amount: in 58 the digit 5 stands for 50. Trap: «the digit 5» and «the number 5» are not the same thing; «two-digit» tells the size of a number (10 to 99), not that there are two of something.

### In the corpora

- [Big numbers often use commas to group digits in threes: 1,000 and 25,000.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/33-commas-lists-clauses-and-clarity/16/)
- [Every olympiad number puzzle gets easier if you write the digits first, then the words.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/37-olympiad-number-word-puzzles/15/)
- [Indian mathematicians treated zero as a real number, and the digits 0 to 9 on your calculator were invented in India.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/4/)
- [Pages 1 to 9 use one digit each: 9 digits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/160-digits-on-the-pages/0/)
- [Pages 10 to 99 are 90 pages with two digits each: 180 digits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/160-digits-on-the-pages/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «digit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/digit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.