Meaning

1 senses

  1. The act of something being scanned.

More definitions
  • 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
  • the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer

Forms

plural: scannings
Singularscanning
Pluralscannings

regular

Word family

11 related words
Relatedscan
Derivedangioscanningautoscanninghyperscanningmicroscanningmultiscanningneuroscanningnoninterlaced scanningnonscanningradioscanningscanningly

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
scandalB2scandalizescandalousscannerscant
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