digitizedsound
nounUK /ˈdɪdʒɪtaɪzd saʊnd/
US /ˈdɪdʒətaɪzd saʊnd/
Sound that has been turned into numbers so a computer can store it and play it back.
The old cassette tape was converted into digitized sound so we could listen to it on the computer.
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2. Audio that has been converted from analog form into a digital format for editing or sharing.
The studio saved the interview as digitized sound for easy editing.
3. Any sound stored as a series of binary numbers rather than as a continuous signal.
Digitized sound can be copied many times without losing quality.
4. The result of sampling and encoding real-world audio into computer-readable data.
The museum's archive of digitized sound lets visitors hear voices from a hundred years ago.