Digital vs. Decimal — What's the Difference?

Relating to or resembling a digit, especially a finger.

The decimal numeral system (also called the base-ten positional numeral system, and occasionally called denary or decanary) is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers. It is the extension to non-integer numbers of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system.

Operated or done with the fingers

A linear array of digits that contains a single period, called the decimal point, is possibly preceded by a minus sign (-), and represents a real number, with each successive digit to the right of the decimal point indicating a multiple of the next negative power of 10, and each successive digit to the left of the decimal point indicating a multiple of the next non-negative power of ten, beginning with 100 = 1. For example, 245.3 represents the real number (2 × 102) + (4 × 101) + (5 × 100) + (3 × 10-1) = 200 + 40 + 5 + 3/10 , and -1.04 represents the real number (-1 × 100) + (-4 × 10-2). Also called mixed decimal.

Having digits.

Such an array of digits in which there are no nonzero digits to the left of the decimal point, representing a real number between -1 and 1. Also called decimal fraction.

Expressed in discrete numerical form, especially for use by a computer or other electronic device

A number written using the base 10.

Relating to or being a device that can generate, record, process, receive, transmit, or display information that is represented in discrete numerical form.

Expressed or expressible as a decimal.

Relating to or being a service that provides information expressed in discrete numerical form

Based on 10.

Relating to or being a profession or activity that is performed using digital devices

Numbered or ordered by groups of 10.

Using or giving a reading in digits

(countable) A number expressed in the base-ten system, (particularly) a fractional numeral written in this system.

Characterized by widespread use of computers

The decimal system itself.

A key played with the finger, as on a piano.

(informal) A decimal place.

Having to do with digits (fingers or toes); performed with a finger.

(informal) A decimal point.

Property of representing values as discrete, often binary, numbers rather than a continuous spectrum.

Concerning numbers expressed in decimal or mathematical calculations performed using decimal.

Of or relating to computers or the Information Age.

To represent with numbers after a decimal point.

(finance) A digital option.

Of or pertaining to decimals; numbered or proceeding by tens; having a tenfold increase or decrease, each unit being ten times the unit next smaller; as, decimal notation; a decimal coinage.

(uncountable) Digital equipment or technology.

A number expressed in the scale of tens; specifically, and almost exclusively, used as synonymous with a decimal fraction.

(music) Any of the keys of a piano or similar instrument.

A proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10

A finger.

A number in the decimal system

Of or pertaining to the fingers; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

Numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten;

Of or pertaining to digits{3}; expressed in digits{3}, or using digits{3}; as, a digital display; a digital clock.

Divided by tens or hundreds;

Performing internal logical and arithmetic operations by means of digits, usually represented as binary numbers. Contrasted to analog, wherein variables are represented as coninuous physical quantities such as voltages or the position of a pointer on a continuous scale; as, a digital computer.

Of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits;

Displaying numbers rather than scale positions;

Relating to or performed with the fingers;