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SCAN

[skan]

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verb (used with object)

to glance at or over or read hastily: to scan a page.

to examine the particulars or points of minutely; scrutinize.

to peer out at or observe repeatedly or sweepingly, as a large expanse; survey.

to analyze (verse) as to its prosodic or metrical structure; read or recite (verse) so as to indicate or test the metrical form.

to read (data) for use by a computer or computerized device, especially using an optical scanner.

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Television. to traverse (a surface) with a beam of light or electrons in order to reproduce or transmit a picture.

Radar. to traverse (a region) with a beam from a radar transmitter.

Medicine/Medical, Biology. to examine (a body, organ, tissue, or other biologically active material) with a scanner.

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verb (used without object)

to examine the meter of verse.

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(of verse) to conform to the rules of meter.

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Television. to scan a surface or the like.

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noun

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an act or instance of scanning; close examination.

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a visual examination by means of a television camera, as for the purpose of making visible or relaying pictures from a remote place: a satellite scan of the dark side of the moon; video scans of property listings available to customers.

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a particular image or frame in such video observation or a photograph made from it.

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Medicine/Medical, Biology.

examination of the body or an organ or part, or a biologically active material, by means of a technique such as computed axial tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultrasonography, or scintigraphy.

the image or display so obtained.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English scannen, variant of *scanden < Late Latin scandere to scan verse, Latin: to climb (see ascend)

Related forms

scan·na·ble, adjective

self-scanned, adjective

un·scan·na·ble, adjective

un·scanned, adjective

Can be confused: scam, scan.

Synonyms
1. study, investigate, inspect, search. 2. skim.

Example Sentences

However, additional contrast-enhanced or higher-resolution scans will add to the scan time.

Students are also tested on their ability to quickly scan and identify a list of internal organs.

Users are required to make some claim about who they are-by swiping a card, for example-before a scan.

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However, additional contrast-enhanced or higher-resolution scans will add to the scan time.

Students are also tested on their ability to quickly scan and identify a list of internal organs.

Users are required to make some claim about who they are-by swiping a card, for example-before a scan.

Brain scan allows unconscious patient to communicate.

Ardent label readers scan nutritional labels for ingredients that they don't want in their diet.

Just scan our list and spend a little time scouting varieties in nurseries and public rose gardens.

Or you could ask your photo lab not to cut the film, then scan it yourself and feed it to your movie-editing software of choice.

Inform the technologist if you must urinate before the completion of the scan.

Then they were to scan the image into their computer and repeat it to create an entirely new pattern.

When he is less confident, his scan could still be a useful guide for the wielder of the knife.

She should have been checked by a physician and either had a cat scan or be admitted for observation overnight.

Observers in these light planes scan for potentially troublesome icebergs.

One good way to take the pulse of the nation is to scan the vast electronic yard sale that is eBay.

The search giant's project to scan millions of books in order to make their text searchable is on hold at the moment.

Readers can scan the code in the newspaper and then see videos relating to the article.

Years later, in adults, the failed wall can be spotted in a brain scan.

So the pat down didn't pick up the bomb nor would the superficial body scan.

First off you're going to need to scan the book in question.

The scan showed two areas of bleeding in her left brain and none in her right brain, both doctors said.

No doubt his frantic attempt to scan the bibliography and see if his work is cited will sufficiently distract him.

If you have alot of items and dont want to scan them, then go to the lines with cashiers.

Your résumé should be easy to scan and understand quickly.

She decided to scan the want ads and apply for select positions.

Radioactive abscess scan uses a radioactive substance to look for abscesses in the body.

Books heavy on photography or art don't scan well and are spared.

With scan times of less than a second, the system is fast enough to be used on a production line.

Preliminary results from the scan have revealed the first detailed.

The price, which medical facilities are reluctant to reveal, depends on where the scan is done and what is being scanned.

First-year students pour concrete beams and use acoustic technology to scan them for hidden cracks.

But if each peasant has to scan her irises every time she picks up her ration, it will be harder to scam the system.

But that's what astronomers say could happen if people aren't careful when they scan the skies for a glimpse of comet.

Colonies can produce such an underwater din that it deafens anyone trying to scan the seas with sonar.

Ardent label readers out there know to scan nutritional labels for ingredients that they don't want in their diet.

There you can walk by a movie poster on a bus stop where you scan a bar code and see a clip of the blockbuster movie".

If you scan their web pages it would be clearly evident.

They want to scan your brain to see which one you really.

The hammerhead also has special sensors across its head that helps it scan for food in the ocean.

Scan of nearby stars turns up super-Earth bonanza.

If you are looking for a friend, scan the list to find that person.

It is now possible to scan someone's brain and get a reasonable idea of what is going through his mind.

The researchers used an atomic force microscope to scan individual plates of nacre.

Look up from this page and scan the scene in front of you.

Almost certainly they would have occasionally raised their heads high to scan the terrain for prey.

How to scan photos for a printed photo book, setting a personal audio alert and customizing wallpaper.

His cardiologist put him through a bunch of tests, including a computerised tomography scan.

The reason: a human body contains too much information to scan and build as replicas.

The exact meaning of the density value depends on the type of scan performed.

Travelers said that they wished some agents using the body scan machines were nicer and that the procedure was better explained.

Before reading, have students scan the story to determine its main idea.

Applicants must create an account and submit to a system scan to be considered for early access to the game.

Google angered some book publishers because it had failed to seek permission to scan books that were protected by copyrights.

Their long antennae scan the air for whiffs of rotten fruits and other treats.

The scaffold will be set up in front of the wall and scan the entire thing.

App developers are offering new ways to scan and organize business cards that make them easy to find.

Next, a laptop-connected bar-code reader is used to scan the old drive's serial number, as well as its replacement's.

Scan the ground for ancient coins, antique keys, and other metal evidence of the past.

Shoppers can use their mobile phones to scan bar codes to see if there is a better deal elsewhere.

The rangers constantly scan a vast, moving sea with binoculars and find nothing.

The presenter might scan the table into a slide directly from the published text.

Give the following questions to each group and have them scan the articles and photo captions for the answers.

After all, you can't simply scan the letterhead since it's difficult to use a word processor to write on top of an image.

Depending on your age and how long you've been sick, a bone density scan might be useful.

My goal was to scan everything to external hard drives and go paperless.

One approach to a booth is to scan the written material on the booth's table, then approach its staffer.

It involved a projector that would scan the sentences on a projector at a given speed.

There's no proof that such an invasive scan is really going to do squat for security and it leaves far too much room for abuse.

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World English Dictionary

scan (skæn)

—vb , scans, scanning, scanned
1.	(tr) to scrutinize minutely
2.	(tr) to glance over quickly
3.	(tr) prosody to read or analyse (verse) according to the rules of metre and versification
4.	(intr) prosody to conform to the rules of metre and versification
5.	(tr) electronics to move a beam of light, electrons, etc, in a predetermined pattern over (a surface or region) to obtain information, esp either to sense and transmit or to reproduce a television image
6.	(tr) to examine data stored on (magnetic tape, etc), usually in order to retrieve information
7.	to examine or search (a prescribed region) by systematically varying the direction of a radar or sonar beam
8.	physics to examine or produce or be examined or produced by a continuous charge of some variable: to scan a spectrum
9.	med to obtain an image of (a part of the body) by means of a scanner

—n
10.	the act or an instance of scanning
11.	med
	a. the examination of a part of the body by means of a scanner: a brain scan; ultrasound scan
	b. the image produced by a scanner

[C14: from Late Latin scandere to scan (verse), from Latin: to climb]

'scannable

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

scan

late 14c., "mark off verse in metric feet," from L.L. scandere "to scan verse," originally, in classical L., "to climb" (the connecting notion is of the rising and falling rhythm of poetry), from PIE *skand- "to spring, leap" (cf. Skt. skandati "hastens, leaps, jumps;" Gk. skandalon "stumbling block;"

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M.Ir. sescaind "he sprang, jumped," sceinm "a bound, jump"). Missing -d in English is probably from confusion with suffix -ed (see lawn (1)). Sense of "look at closely, examine" first recorded 1540s. The (opposite) sense of "look over quickly, skim" is first attested 1926. The noun is recorded from 1706. Scanner as a type of mechanical device is recorded from 1927.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

scan (skān)
v. scanned, scan·ning, scans

To move a finely focused beam of light or electrons in a systematic pattern over a surface in order to reproduce or sense and subsequently transmit an image.
To examine a body or a body part with a CAT scanner or similar scanning apparatus.
To search stored computer data automatically for specific data.

The act or an instance of scanning.
Examination of a body or body part by a CAT scanner or similar scanning apparatus.
A picture or an image that is produced by this means.

scan'na·ble adj.
scan'ner n.

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Computing Dictionary

SCAN definition

1. ["A Parallel Implementation of the SCAN Language", N.G. Bourbakis, Comp Langs 14(4):239-254 (1989)].
2. A real-time language from DEC.
[Are these the same language?]
(1994-11-01)

scan definition

1. (computer peripheral) See scanner.
2. (circuit design) See scan design.
3. (functional programming) See scanl, scanr.
4. An algorithm for scheduling multiple accesses to a disk. A number of requests are ordered according to the data's position on the storage device. This reduces the disk arm movement to one "scan" or sweep across the whole disk in the worst case. The serivce time can be estimated from the disk's track-to-track seek time, maximum seek time (one scan), and maximum rotational latency.
Scan-EDF is a variation on this.
(1995-11-15)

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