Digital is to digitise, as analogue is to ..? [closed]

If I'm converting something from analogue to digital, I digitise it.

What am I doing if I convert from digital to analogue?


Solution 1:

You reconstruct, as in a reconstruction filter found in digital-to-analog converters:

a reconstruction filter is used to construct a smooth analog signal from a digital input

Solution 2:

This is an interesting question.

The distinction between the two is characterised by the distinction between the discrete and the continuous. To take something discrete and make it continuous, one interpolates.

Dictonary.com defines interpolate as:

Mathematics. to insert, estimate, or find an intermediate term in (a sequence).