digital representation

collocation in English

meaningsofdigitalandrepresentation

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digital
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪdʒ.ɪ.təl/us
/ˈdɪdʒ.ə.t̬əl/
recording or storing information as a series of the numbers 1 and 0, to show that a signal is present ...
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representation
noun
uk
/ˌrep.rɪ.zenˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌrep.rɪ.zenˈteɪ.ʃən/
a person or organization that speaks, acts, or is present officially for ...
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(Definition ofdigitalandrepresentationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdigital representation

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By re-appropriating contemporary techniques in visual effects, this research may also begin to test the limits ofdigitalrepresentation.
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The graphic symbolism developed is very well suited for adigitalrepresentation.
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It can be argued that thedigitalrepresentationof music is the most abstract and contextfree form it has ever taken.
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Fordigitalrepresentationin any one alphabet a byte of 8 binary digits is enough to store a character.
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This of course not only questions the limits ofdigitalrepresentationbut helps debate the topic of perspective and the relationship between twodimensional images and three-dimensional form.
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This kind of data is known as digital ink and can be regarded as adigitalrepresentationof handwriting.
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The result is called "digitalrepresentation" or, more specifically, a "digital image", for the object, and "digital form", for the signal.
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The difference between the actual analog value and thedigitalrepresentationis known as "quantization error".
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A continuous signal can be sampled at some sampling rate and thus be converted into adigitalrepresentationusing samples.
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A profile refers therefore to the explicitdigitalrepresentationof a person's identity.
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The more bits used represent each sample, the finer the granularity in thedigitalrepresentation, and thus the smaller the error.
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Social networks also help users establish a digital identity, or a symbolicdigitalrepresentationof identity attributes.
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It is easily the bestdigitalrepresentationof this film currently available.
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Sometimes, adigitalrepresentationof this rotation is generated, rather than physical rotation of a component.
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Digital audio recording converts the original sound into a sequence of numbers; sampled to convert the analog signal to adigitalrepresentation.
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Adigitalrepresentationof an area of terrain is mapped based on digital terrain elevation data or stereo imagery.
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A practice that seeks to transcend mediation via a screen and locate itself in the physical world, rather than at one stage removed, throughdigitalrepresentation.
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The presence of those images acts as an extension of oneself to others, giving adigitalrepresentation of what it is they are doing and who they are with.
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When the half lines are rounded up to whole lines for ease ofdigitalrepresentation, this gives 576 lines, which is also the nearest mod(16) value to 575.
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