Digitisation

noun

/ˌdɪdʒɪtaɪˈzeɪʃən/

The process of converting information, services, or records into a digital format that can be stored, processed, and transmitted electronically.

✍️ Usage in a UPSC answer

The large-scale digitisation of land records under programmes such as the Digital India Land Records Modernisation initiative has reduced opportunities for tampering and curtailed the rent-seeking that long plagued revenue administration.

Synonyms

digitalisationcomputerisationelectronic conversionencodingdigital conversion

Antonyms

analogue conversionmanualisationdematerialisation (reversal to paper)de-digitisation

🌱 Word Family

digitise (v), digitised (adj), digitising (v pres.p), digit (n), digital (adj), digitisation (n)

🔡 Root

Latin digitus = finger, toe (counting on fingers); digital = relating to digits; -isation = process of making

📜 Etymology

From Latin digitus ("finger, toe") — referring to counting on fingers — via digital + the suffix -isation (British English form).

🧠 Memory Hook

Think "digit" — the fingers we once counted on — turned into the 0s and 1s (binary digits) a computer counts with: digitisation turns the analogue world into digits.

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