scan
IPA: skˈæn
noun
- Close investigation.
- (computing) An instance of scanning.
- (computing) The result or output of a scanning process.
- (functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.
verb
- (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
- (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
- (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.
- (computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
- (computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
- (computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.
- (obsolete, transitive, originally) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
- (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
- (poetry, intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.
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Examples of "scan" in Sentences
- We can forego the scan.
- He scanned his surroundings.
- Did he scan the room carefully
- He is trying to scan as much as possible.
- I was scanning the history of the article.
- AOI visually scans the surface of the PCB.
- The actual file is from a scan of the letterhead.
- Secondly the scanning of the picture is low quality.
- The police scanned and investigated the house thoroughly.
- The radiation is correlated between the first scan and the second scan.
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