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Scanning   /skˈænɪŋ/   Listen
Scanning

noun
1.
The process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer.
2.
The act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission.


Scan

verb
(past & past part. scanned; pres. part. scanning)
1.
Examine minutely or intensely.
2.
Examine hastily.  Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, skim.
3.
Make a wide, sweeping search of.
4.
Conform to a metrical pattern.
5.
Move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image.
6.
Read metrically.
7.
Obtain data from magnetic tapes.  Synonym: read.



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"Scanning" Quotes from Famous Books



... revolvers were levelled now. I took sight along mine at his detested face. It was white but curiously eager— hopeful even. I lowered my arm, scanning his face still; and still scanning it, set my weapon down on ...
— Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... truth, so long as he held his place, the prime minister of European Protestantism. There was none other to rival him, few to comprehend him, fewer still to sustain him. As Prince Maurice was at that time the great soldier of Protestantism, without clearly scanning the grandeur of the field in which he was a chief actor, or foreseeing the vastness of its future, so the Advocate was its statesman and its prophet. Could the two have worked together as harmoniously as they had done at an earlier day, it would have been a blessing for the common ...
— Memoir of John Lothrop Motley, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... alighting at the Common, following the narrow path made by pedestrians in the heavy snow to Fillmore Street. She climbed the dark stairs, opened the dining-room door, and paused on the threshold. Hannah and Edward sat there under the lamp, Hannah scanning through her spectacles the pages of a Sunday newspaper. On perceiving Janet she dropped ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... insure domestic tranquillity, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity," interrupted Abel, who had been scanning the Constitution, and who delivered the words with a ...
— Trumps • George William Curtis
... in the intervals when my terror left me, I tried to speculate upon the plan of the savages. Their own numbers could not be great, and yet they must have known from our trace how few we were. Scanning the ground, I noted that the forest was fairly clean of undergrowth on both sides of us. Below, the stream ran straight, but there were growths of cane and briers. Looking up, I saw Weldon faced about. It was the ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill


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