How to say "digital" in Japanese

• デジタルCommon
  no-adjectiveThe common loanword covering the general sense of 'digital' — digital technology, devices, data, and media. This is the word you want in most contexts, from product descriptions to technical and news writing.
  その年としの流行語りゅうこうごはデジタルで、例たとえばデジタル時計とけい、デジタルマイクロウエーブオーブンとか、デジタルペンであった。↗

  That year's buzzword was digital: digital clocks, digital microwave ovens, even digital pens.
• ディジタル計数形ディジタルけいすうがた
  nounA less common technical term, literally 'counting form', for representing a quantity digitally as discrete counted values. It is seldom the word you want for 'digital' generally; デジタル is the ordinary word.
• デジ
  prefixA clipped short form of デジタル, working like the English prefix 'digi-'. It is less common, and デジタル remains the word you want for 'digital' in most contexts.

Use 「デジタル」 for the ordinary sense of 'digital' in most contexts; 「ディジタル計数形」 is a less common technical term for the discrete counted sense, and 「デジ」 is a less common short form like English 'digi-'.

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• デジタルdigital
• ディジタル計数形ディジタルけいすうがたdigital
• デジdigital