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scan
1[ skan ]
verb (used with object)
- to glance at or over or read hastily:
to scan a page.
Synonyms:
- to examine the particulars or points of minutely; scrutinize.
Synonyms: , ,
- 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.
- 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.
verb (used without object)
- to examine the meter of verse.
- (of verse) to conform to the rules of meter.
- Television. to scan a surface or the like.
noun
- an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
- 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.
- a particular image or frame in such video observation or a photograph made from it.
- 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.
Scan.
2abbreviation for
- Scandinavia.
scan
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verb
- tr to scrutinize minutely
- tr to glance over quickly
- tr prosody to read or analyse (verse) according to the rules of metre and versification
- intr prosody to conform to the rules of metre and versification
- 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
- tr to examine data stored on (magnetic tape, etc), usually in order to retrieve information
- to examine or search (a prescribed region) by systematically varying the direction of a radar or sonar beam
- physics to examine or produce or be examined or produced by a continuous charge of some variable
to scan a spectrum
- med to obtain an image of (a part of the body) by means of a scanner
noun
- the act or an instance of scanning
- med
- the examination of a part of the body by means of a scanner
ultrasound scan
a brain scan
- the image produced by a scanner
Derived Forms
- ˈԲԲ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- n· adjective
- -ԲԱ adjective
- un·n· adjective
- ܲ·ԲԱ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of scan1
Example Sentences
Next to him, a fellow soldier scanned the sky with binoculars.
Captive urban lizards showed more information-seeking behaviors, such as tongue flicking and head scanning.
This is a bit like doing an MRI scan of the sediment layers beneath the present-day seafloor, going back millions of years.
She recalled going for the routine 12-week scan at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.
In its report, the watchdog gave examples of mistakes being made with pregnancy scans and chemotherapy drugs.
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