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Scanner

noun

Someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables.

An electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer. Synonyms: digital scanner, image scanner.

A radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area.

A radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition. Synonym: electronic scanner.

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CAT scanner

computerized axial tomography scanner

positron emission tomography scanner

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"Scanner" Quotes from Famous Books

... behind the chieftain's own hut we came upon yet a stranger relic of primitive barbarism. Two complete human skeletons squatted there in the same curious attitude as their lord's, as if in attendance upon him in a neighbouring ante-chamber. They were the skeletons of women—so our professional bone-scanner immediately told us—and each of their skulls had been carefully cleft right down the middle by a single blow from a sharp stone hatchet. But they were not the victims intended for the piece de resistance at the funeral banquet. They were clearly ...

— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... thousand kilos," growled Banasel, "except for a few little islands." He jerked a thumb toward the workbench. "I can't show you right now, because the scanner's down for cleaning, but there isn't even an island for the first couple thousand K's. Currents are all wrong, too. No one ...

— The Players • Everett B. Cole