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Digital divide The digital divide is the gap between those with regular, effective access to digital technologies and those without. The term digital divide referes to those who can benefit from it, and those who don't, as opposed to just talking about who has direct access to technology, and those who don't.
Digital Dark Age The digital Dark Age is a term used to describe a possible future situation where it will be diffucult or impossible to read historical documents, because they have been stored in an obsolete digital format. This could cause the period around the turn of the 21st century to be comparable to the Dark Ages during the Middle Ages in the sense that there will be a relative lack of written record.
Digital Data Communications Message Protocol Digital Data Communications Message Protocol (DDCMP) is a communications protocol devised by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1974 to allow communication over point-to-point network links for the company's DECnet Phase I network protocol. The protocol uses full or half duplex synchronous and asynchronous links and allowed errors introduced in transmission to be detected and corrected.
Digital Data Storage Digital Data Storage (DDS) is a format for storing and backing up computer data on magnetic tape that evolved from Digital Audio Tape (DAT) technology, which was originally created for CD-quality audio recording. In 1989, Sony and Hewlett Packard defined the DDS format for data storage using DAT tape cartridges.
Digital Datcom The United States Air Force Digital Datcom is a computerized version of the USAF Data Compendium, a large collection of information used by aerospace engineers to predict fixed-wing aircraft stability and handling properties. Digital Datcom takes an input file containing a geometric description of an aircraft, and outputs its corresponding dimensionless stability derivatives.
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei (デジタル・デビル物語 女神転生; Dejitaru Debiru Monogatari Megami Tensei) is the first in the popular Megami Tensei series of RPG games. It was developed by "Wolf Team" (the subsidiary of Nihon Telenet which is now "Namco Tales Studio"), and was released for the Famicom by Namcot in 1987 (there was also a prior version released for the MSX It was later enhance-remade along with Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei 2] in a [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System|Super Famicom games known as Kyaku Megami Tensei.
Digital Dictionary of Buddhism The project of the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (usually referred to by the acronym DDB) was initiated by Charles Muller (a specialist in East Asian Buddhism) during his first year of graduate school--upon his realization of the dearth of lexicographical works available for both East Asian Buddhism and classical Chinese. Since that time, he has continued to compile the terminology from the texts that he has studied and translated, extending for almost twenty years.
Digital Dreamgirls Digital Dreamgirls is one of the best known pornography sites on the internet. Digital Dreamgirls, also known as ddgirls is owned and operated by Earlyman, Inc and run in Los Angeles by veteran Penthouse photographer J.
Digital ecology The cutting edge of modern evolutionary biology is suggesting that all life forms are networks. The pioneering work of Lynn Margulis is important here as well as the speculations on her work made by the cultural historian William Irwin Thompson.
Digital elevation model A digital elevation model (DEM) is a type of Digital terrain model, recording a topographical (geomorphometric) representation of the terrain of the Earth or another surface in digital format. DEM's record altitude in a raster format.
Digital everywhere Digital Everywhere is an Austrian company which develops digital television reception devices, radio and data services according to the DVB and ATSC standard with computers and consumer electronic devices, as well as high-speed multimedia networks for automotive and home buildings.
Digital Eel Digital Eel is a self-funded independent video game development team located in the Seattle, Washington area. The group was formed in 2001 by Rich Carlson, Iikka Keranen and Bill "Phosphorus" Sears as a self-described "labor of love between three friends who like to make games together.
Digital Emergency Alert System The Digital Emergency Alert System (DEAS) is a system designed to alert first-responders and civilians in the event of a national emergency. It is based upon and supplements the Emergency Alert System (EAS) by sending out text, voice, video, and other digital messages to mobile phones, pagers, radios, and televisions.
Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications DECT or Digital Enhanced (formerly European) Cordless Telecommunications is an ETSI standard for digital portable phones, commonly used for domestic or corporate purposes. DECT can also be used for wireless data transfers.
Digital Entertainment Network Digital Entertainment Network (DEN.com) was a multimedia dot-com company that attempted to use new platforms (mostly small screens like portable devices or the web) to delivering short productions combining content and advertising.
Digital Extremes Digital Extremes is a Canadian computer and video game developer founded in 1993 by James Schmalz, specifically noted for its part in the highly successful Unreal series of games. Digital Extremes' office is in London, Ontario.
Digital facsimile equipment Digital facsimile equipment refers to the modern fax machines which operates on ISDN 64 kbit/s signals and having colour faxing, high speed 3 seconds per page transmission, high resolution graphics, 256 grey scales and may be PC based, high speed fax, Lan Fax etc.
Digital filter In electronics, a digital filter is any electronic filter that works by performing digital mathematical operations on an intermediate form of a signal. This is in contrast to older analog filters which work entirely in the analog realm and must rely on physical networks of electronic components (such as resistors, capacitors, transistors, etc.
Digital formats Referring to communications techniques and procedures whereby information is encoded as binary language, as opposed analog representation of information in variable, but continuous, wave forms. Electronic mail: each Internet user can have his or her own address for electronic mail messaging.
Digital Folklore Digital Folklore is the self published debut of London, England based experimental band Oi Va Voi. Some of the tracks on the album were later abridged a rerecorded for Laughter Through Tears, one example is the Hungarian folk song "A Csitari" whose vocals were performed by a female singer in the new album.
Digital gold currency Digital gold currency (or DGC) is a form of electronic money denominated in gold weight. The typical unit of account for such currency is the gold gram or the troy ounce, although other units such as the gold dinar are sometimes used.
Digital holography Digital holography refers to the science and the process of acquiring three-dimensional signals that enable the high-definition measurement of the surface dimensions of an object or an assembly of objects, and in which multi-wavelength optical imaging interferometry is employed to allow the surface shape to be measured over a range of distances significantly exceeding the wavelength of the laser light that is illuminating the surface. The digital holography process entails capturing multiple interferograms that each indicate the optical phase relationships beteen light returned from all sampled points on the illuminated surface and a controlled reference beam of light.
Digital Himalaya The Digital Himalaya project was conceived of by Professor Alan Macfarlane and Dr Mark Turin as a strategy for archiving and making available valuable ethnographic materials from the Himalayan region. Based jointly at the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University and the Anthropology Department at Cornell University, the project began in December 2000.
Digital channel election A digital channel election is the process by which television stations in the United States choose which physical radio frequency channel they will permanently use after the analog shutdown in 2009. The process is managed and mandated by the Federal Communications Commission for all full-power TV stations.
Digital character A digital character is a relatively new concept to the world of film, while the earliest digital characters can be traced back to computer games. A digital character is a character usually seen in a film or game that has been made using a computer.
Digital Chart of the World The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) is a comprehensive digital map of the world. It represents the most comprehensive GIS global database that is freely available as of 2006, although it has not been updated since 1992.
Digital Chocolate Digital Chocolate is a video game developer located in San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2003 by Trip Hawkins, the entrepreneur and founder of the video game publishing giant Electronic Arts and the ill-fated video game console developer 3DO.
Digital illustration Computer illustration or digital illustration is the use of digital tools to produce images under the direct manipulation of the artist, usually through a pointing device such as a tablet or a mouse. It is distinguished from computer-generated art, which is produced by a computer using mathematical models created by the artist.
Digital image editing Digital image editing is the process of altering digital images, whether they be digital photographs or other types of digitally represented images. Specialised software programs called vector graphics editors or raster graphics editors are the primary tools with which a user may manipulate, enhance, and transform images.
Digital image processing Digital image processing is the use of computer algorithms to perform image processing on digital images. Digital image processing has the same advantages over analog image processing as digital signal processing has over analog signal processing — it allows a much wider range of algorithms to be applied to the input data, and can avoid problems such as the build-up of noise and signal distortion during processing.
Digital imaging Digital imaging or digital image acquisition is the creation of digital images, typically from a physical object. The term is often assumed to imply or include the processing, compression, storage, printing, and display of such images.
Digital imprimatur Digital imprimatur is a term widely associated with John Walker, due to his article of the same name. In the Roman Catholic Church, an imprimatur is a censor's official declaration that a work is free from doctrinal or moral error, but Walker uses the term "digital imprimatur" to describe a system of internet censorship.
Digital intelligence Digital Intelligence are all those set of coordinated practices, methodologies, knowledges and experiences that contribute to connect the Digital Business Model with the Core Business Model in such a way that delivers value to the Business Model in a verified manner, and impacting positively the revenue and the profit.
Digital intermediate Digital intermediate (often abbreviated as DI) describes the process of digitizing a motion picture and manipulating color and other image characteristics to change the look, and is usually the final creative adjustment to a movie before distribution in theaters. It is distinguished from the telecine process in which film is scanned and color is manipulated but only intended for video and television distribution.
Digital ICE Digital Image Correction and Enhancement is a set of technologies related to producing an altered image in a variety of frequency spectra. The objective of these technologies is to render an image more usable by Fourier or other filtering techniques.
Digital Image Design Digital Image Design is a British video game developer originally based in Runcorn, Cheshire. Having titles published by Ocean Software, the company expanded following the release of TFX and Inferno, and subsequently moved offices to Warrington, Cheshire.
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information in medical imaging. It includes a file format definition and a network communications protocol.
Digital Jesters Digital Jesters was a British video game publisher, based in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. The company was founded by Leo Zullo and Terry Malham in 2003 by veterans from CDV UK (after the UK office was shut by CDV), and their first UK-releases were TrackMania and Virtual Skipper 3, both by Nadeo.
Digital Juice (DVD) Digital Juice is a DVD that was released in 2002 with series of six short animations, made by Studio 4C from 1998 to 2001 and directed by six different directors. The six shorts have a combined running time of 20 minutes:
Digital library A digital library is a library in which a significant proportion of the resources are available in machine-readable format (as opposed to print or microform), accessible by means of computers. The digital content may be locally held or accessed remotely via computer networks.
Digital loop carrier A digital loop carrier (DLC) is a system which uses digital transmission to extend the range of the local loop farther than would be possible using only twisted pair copper wires. A DLC digitizes and multiplexes the individual signals carried by the local loops onto a single datastream on the DLC segment.
Digital Learning Commons The Digital Learning Commons is "a nonprofit organization established to improve access to educational opportunities and learning resources by providing high-quality educational materials, online courses, and technology tools for Washington's students, teachers, and parents."1 It was founded in 2002 and relies on a dedicated office staff and a team of student mentors.
Digital Library for Earth System Education The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a grassroots community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels.
Digital Library of India Digital Library of India, part of the online services of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is an online resources for scanned texts of English-language publications covering the history of India, as well as vintage science books (in the "Science Madness" section of the site). The publications are mainly in PDF or QuickTime format.
Digital Life Digital Life is a research and educational program about radically rethinking of the human-computer interactive experience. It integrates digital world (information & services) and physical world (physical objects/environment).
Digital Linear Tape Digital Linear Tape (DLT) is a magnetic tape data storage technology developed by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984. In 1994 it was purchased by Quantum Corporation, who currently manufactures drives and licenses the technology and trademark.
Digital Love "Digital Love" is a song by electronic French duo Daft Punk with lyrics written by DJ Sneak.Carlos Sosa (aka DJ Sneak) received a songwriter credit in the liner notes of Discovery (2001) and full lyrical aknowledgement in the end credits of Interstella 5555 (2003).
Digital magnetofluidics Digital magnetofluidics is a method for moving, combining, splitting, and controlling drops of water or biological fluids using magnetic fields. This is accomplished by adding superparamagnetic particles to a drop placed on a superhydrophobic surface.
Digital marriage A digital marriage occurs when two people who have no connection outside their gaming lives come together within a video game to do, within this virtual community, what they feel that they cannot accomplish within real life. Generally such marriages are considered to be a pleasant fantasy, rather than a legally binding ceremony.
Digital media receiver A digital media receiver is a home entertainment device used to connect a home theatre system to a computer network in order to retrieve media files (music, pictures, video). They are capable of browsing file trees and using metadata to organize media files.
Digital microfluidics Digital microfluidics is an alternative technology for lab-on-a-chip systems based upon micromanipulation of discrete droplets. Microfluidic processing is performed on unit-sized packets of fluid which are transported, stored, mixed, reacted, or analyzed in a discrete manner using a standard set of basic instructions.
Digital milliwatt In digital telephony, the digital milliwatt is a test signal consisting of eight 8-bit words corresponding to one pulse-code modulated cycle of a sinusoidal signal approximately 1 kHz in frequency and one milliwatt, rms, in power.
Digital mixing console In professional audio, a digital mixing console, is an electronic device for combining, routing, and changing the dynamics of digital audio samples. The digital audio samples are summed to produce a combined output.
Digital mockup Digital MockUp or DMU is a technology that allows product design engineers to replace physical prototypes with virtual ones, using 3D computer graphics techniques. It is also frequently referred to as Digital Prototyping or Virtual Prototyping.
Digital modulation Digital modulation (also referred to as shift keying) is a modulation in which the modified parameter of the carrier signal can take only discrete values. This type of modulation can sometimes be referred to also as discrete modulation or manipulation, e.
Digital multiplex hierarchy In telecommunication, a digital multiplex hierarchy is a hierarchy consisting of an ordered repetition of tandem digital multiplexers that produce signals of successively higher data rates at each level of the hierarchy.
Digital Manga Publishing Digital Manga Publishing is a company that publishes Japanese manga, novels and instructional and illustration books in North America. The company has co-published several manga with publishing house Dark Horse Comics, including Berserk, Hellsing, The Ring, and Trigun.
Digital Media Arts College Digital Media Arts College (DMAC) is a private college in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, which offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Computer Animation and Graphic Design, co-founded in 2001 by Cynthia Jakeway, President and Tony Palmieri, Executive Vice President.
Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act The Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA) is a proposed law in the United States that directly challenges portions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and would intensify Federal Trade Commission efforts to mandate proper labeling for copy-protected CDs to ensure consumer protection from deceptive labeling practices. It would also allow manufacturers to innovate in hardware designs and allow consumers to treat CDs as they have historically been able to treat them.
Digital Message Device The AN/PSG-2 Digital Message Device is a portable data-entry terminal used by artillery forward observers to communicate with artillery batteries to request and control artillery fire missions. DMDs were first fielded as part of the TACFIRE artillery fire control system.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law which criminalizes production and dissemination of technology whose primary purpose is to circumvent measures taken to protect copyright, not merely infringement of copyright itself, and heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. Passed on October 8, 1998 by a unanimous vote in the United States Senate and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998, the DMCA amended title 17 of the US Code to extend the reach of copyright, while limiting the liability of Online Providers from copyright infringement by their users.
Digital Monkey The Digital Monkey is a knitted mascot used to promote the now defunct United Kingdom television package ITV Digital. A series of high profile adverts featured the comedian Johnny Vegas alongside the monkey, which was originally available free to those who had purchased ITV Digital.
Digital Monster X-Evolution Digital Monster X-Evolution (frequently referred to among fans by the commonplace portmanteau, Digimon X-Evolution) is the 8th Digimon movie, and the first to air on Japanese television rather than being in Japanese theaters first. It aired on January 3, 2005, on the Fuji TV network.
Digital Motor Electronics Digital Motor Electronics (DME) is a microprocessor based system that controls the ignition, fuel injection, oxygen sensor and numerous ancillary functions. The DME provides raw data to an on-board computer that uses an alphanumeric display to provide you with information such as the average fuel consumption, the distance you can still cover with fuel in the tank, an average speed, outside temperature and more.
Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB) is a digital radio transmission system for sending multimedia (radio, TV, and datacasting) to mobile devices such as mobile phones. It can operate via satellite (S-DMB) or terrestrial (T-DMB) transmission.
Digital Multiplex System Digital Multiplex System (DMS) is the name shared among several different telephony product lines from Nortel Networks for wireline and wireless operators. Among them are the DMS-1 Rural/Urban digital loop carrier, DMS-10 telephone switch, the DMS SuperNode family of telephone switches (DMS-100, DMS-200, DMS-250, DMS-300, DMS-500, DMS-GSP, DMS-MSC, DMS-MTX), and the S/DMS optical transmission system.
Digital narratology Digital Narratology is the study of Narratology in the new media forms that have arisen with the advent of computer technology. This area of study looks at hypertext novels such as Victory Garden by Stuart Moulthrop Network fiction (online) such as 253 (book) by Geoff RymanText based interactive fiction The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game) publish by Infocom, MUD's, blogs, video games and alternate reality games.
Digital native In an article in 2001, Marc Prensky referred to a cultural difference relating to whether a person grew up with or without fairly accessible electronic media. Those who did he referred to as digital natives (sometimes they are also called "Digiborigines") while the rest who function within an ITC world are digital immigrants.
Digital negative In digital photography and digital film, a digital negative is data which represents "raw" unprocessed image data, and fulfils the same role as a film negative in traditional chemical photography: that is, it is not directly usable as an image, but has all of the information needed to create an image. Unlike traditional photography, a digital negative is not actually in negative (i.
Digital Nitrate Prize The Digital Nitrate Prize is a cash award that will be given to the first individual or group to demonstrate a practical digital transfer and/or projection system that will in tandem exactly duplicate the appearance in all respects of classic, high-silver nitrate motion picture film projected with carbon arc light on a historically accurate screen.
Digital obsolescence Digital obsolescence is a situation where a digital resource is no longer readable because the physical media, the reader required to read the media, the hardware, or the software that runs on it, is no longer available. A prime example of this is the BBC Domesday Project.
Digital on-screen graphic A digital on screen graphic (known in the UK and New Zealand by the acronym DOG; in the US and Canada as a bug; and in Australia as a watermark) is a watermark-like station logo that many television broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen-area of their programs to assist viewers in identifying the channel. They are thus a form of permanent visual station identification, increasing brand recognition and asserting ownership of the video signal.
Digital organism A digital organism is a self-replicating computer program that mutates and evolves. Digital organisms are used as a tool to study the dynamics of Darwinian evolution, and to test or verify specific hypotheses or mathematical models of evolution.
Digital orthophoto quadrangles Digital orthophoto quadrangles (shortened to DOQ's) are aerial or satellite photography that have been corrected so that its pixels are aligned with longitude and latitude lines, and have a narrowly defined region of coverage. This is a widely used format introduced by United States Geological Survey.
Digital One Digital One is a national commercial digital radio multiplex in the United Kingdom, jointly owned by GCap Media and Arqiva and transmitted on frequency block 11D. It broadcasts the following channels receivable on any digital-equipped DAB radio:
Digital Opportunity Investment Trust Digital Opportunity Investment Trust (DOIT) is a proposal to create a United States federal trust to distribute, for educational purposes, funds to be raised by public auctions of licenses to use radio frequency bands.
Digital painting Digital painting is an emerging artform in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, impasto, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software.
Digital paper Digital paper, also known as interactive paper, is patterned paper used in conjunction with a digital pen to create handwritten digital documents. The printed dot pattern uniquely identifies the position coordinates on the paper.
Digital permanence Digital permanence addresses the history and development of digital storage techniques specifically quantifying the expected lifetime of data stored on various digital media and the factors which influence the permanence of digital data. It is often a mix of ensuring the data itself can be retained on a particular form of media and that the technology remains viable.
Digital persona Digital Persona (DP) is the electronic representation, an information model, of an individual's public personality based on and maintained by transactions or secondary information, and is intended for use as a proxy for the individual. The term was created and defined first by Clarke(1).
Digital photo frame A digital photo frame is a picture frame that displays digital photos without the need for printing them first. The advent of digital cameras necessitates this type of product, as fewer than 35% of digital photos are ever printed Digital photo frames typically display the pictures directly from a camera's memory card], though a few styles also provide internal memory storage.
Digital photography Digital photography, as opposed to film photography, uses electronic devices to record the image as binary data. This facilitates storage and editing of the images on personal computers, and also the ability to show and delete unsuccessful images immediately on the camera itself.
Digital physics In theoretical physics, digital physics holds the basic premise that the entire history of our universe is computable, that is, the output of a (presumably short) computer program. The hypothesis was pioneered in Konrad Zuse's book Rechnender Raum (translated by MIT into English as Calculating Space, 1970).
Digital piano A digital piano is a modern electronic musical instrument designed to serve primarily as an alternative to a traditional piano, both in the way it feels to play and in the sound produced. Some digital pianos are also designed to look like an acoustic piano.
Digital poetry Digital poetry refers to a wide range of approaches to poetry that all have in common prominent and crucial use of computers. Digital poetry can be available on the World Wide Web or Internet (via email lists, for instance), CD ROM, as installations in art galleries, etc.
Digital probabilistic physics Digital probabilistic physics is a branch of digital philosophy which holds that the universe exists as a nondeterministic state machine. The notion of the universe existing as a state machine was first postulated by Konrad Zuse's book Rechnender Raum.
Digital puppetry Digital puppetry is the manipulation and performance of digitally animated 2D or 3D figures and objects in a virtual environment that are rendered in real-time by computers. It is most commonly used in film and television production, but has also been utilized in interactive theme park attractions and live theatre.
Digital Pack Rat Digital Pack Rat is a neologism for a computer user who downloads any file they encounter and save it to any storage device, in particular hard drive or DVD burner and subsequently never deletes them. The term seems to have originated in an article by Indianapolis Star reporter Don Fernandez, but has gotten more usage in internet circles as of recently.
Digital Paradise Digital Paradise Incorporated is an ePLDT company and is owner and operator of the Philippines largest and fastest growing Internet café chain, Netopia Internet Café and other shared access facilities such as Extreme Gaming Grounds.
Digital Planet Digital Planet is a BBC radio programme broadcast on the BBC World Service, and also podcast on BBC News Online. Currently presented by Gareth Mitchell and with expert comments from Bill Thompson, it's a weekly look at technology stories and news around the world.
Digital Poster A digital poster, dubbed ePoster by Convene Magazine (December 2006), is the logical extension of abstract management systems. By taking the content submitted by researchers to the academic or profession conference peer review process and creating a digital version of a single page poster, audio video and software companies seek to eliminate the time consuming and costly process of paper poster production.
Digital Postmarks A Digital Postmark (DPM) is a technology that applies a trusted time stamps issued by a Postal Authority to an electronic document, validates electronic signatures, and stores and archives all non-repudiation data needed to support a potential court challenge.
Digital Preservation Coalition The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) is a UK-based non-profit limited company which seeks to secure the preservation of digital resources in the UK and internationally to secure the global digital memory and knowledge base.
Digital Process Communications Digital Process Communications protocols originated with the first smart transmitters for process measurement made by Honeywell in the 1980s. Since then other process instrument manufacturers have produced smart transmitters.
Digital Program Insertion Digital Program Insertion (DPI) allows cable headends and broadcast affiliates to insert locally-generated commercials and short programs into remotely distributed regional programs before they are delivered to home viewers.
Digital Promotion As a distinct digital culture continues to evolve, new techniques to market and advertise using digital technologies has evolved as well. Digital promotion is a discipline that uses digital technologies to promote, advertise or otherwise sell an idea.
Digital Purgatory Digital Purgatory or DP is a webcomic] created and written by Nix Karcel. It originally began with illustrations by [[Scott Ramsoomair of VG Cats but later changed artists and is now currently drawn by Donald Lozen.
Digital radio frequency memory Digital Radio Frequency Memory (DRFM) is an electronic method for digitally capturing and retransmitting an RF signal. DRFMs are typically used in radar jamming, although applications in cellular communications are becoming more common.
Digital read out A Digital Read Out (or DRO) is an electronic measuring instrument and display that converts the signal generated by a linear encoder and glass or digital scale into a human readable form. A digital readout is commonly fitted to lathes, milling machines, boring mills and other manual machine tools to allow the operator to work faster and with greater accuracy.
Digital recording In digital recording, the analog signal of a motion-picture/sound is converted into a stream of discrete numbers, representing the changes in air pressure (chroma and luminance values in case of video) through time; thus making an abstract template for the original sound or moving image.

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