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Digest can refer to any of the following:
- Digestion of food
- Digest access authentication in HTTP
- Hash algorithm, sometimes called "message digest"
- A style or format of distribution of electronic mailing lists in which multiple messages are placed together and distributed as a single unit
- Pandects, a digest of Roman law
- In biology, a restriction digest cleaves DNA using restriction endonucleases
- Any of several periodical publications with "Digest" in the title:
- Children's Digest
- Consumers Digest
- Football Digest
- Golf Digest
- Reader's Digest
- Writer's Digest
- Digest size magazine format, used by some magazines (though not always consistently used by magazines with "Digest" in their names)
