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In telecommunication and computing, the term digitizer has the following meanings: Telecommunication is the extension of communication over a distance. ... Originally, the word computing was synonymous with counting and calculating* Computational models DBLP, as of February 2005, now lists over 600 000 bibliographic entries on computer science and several thousand links to the home pages of computer scientists Hardware See information processor for a high-level block diagram. ...

  1. A device that converts an analog signal into a digital representation of the analog signal.
    • Note: A digitizer usually samples the analog signal at a constant sampling rate and encodes each sample into a numeric representation of the amplitude value of the sample.
  2. A device that converts the position of a point on a surface into digital coordinate data.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 For the Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact publication, see Astounding Magazine. ... A digital system is one that uses discrete values rather than a continuous spectrum of values: compare analog. ... The sampling frequency or sampling rate defines the number of samples per second taken from a continuous signal to make a discrete signal. ... A datum is a statement accepted at face value (a given). Data is the plural of datum. ... Federal Standard 1037C entitled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a U.S. Federal Standard, issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. ... MIL-STD-188 is a series of U.S. military standards relating to telecommunications. ...


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