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Scanner   /skˈænər/   Listen
Scanner

noun
1.
Someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables.
2.
An electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer.  Synonyms: digital scanner, image scanner.
3.
A radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area.
4.
A radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition.  Synonym: electronic scanner.



Related searches:
CAT scanner
computerized axial tomography scanner
digital scanner
electronic scanner
image scanner
PET scanner
positron emission tomography scanner


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"Scanner" Quotes from Famous Books



... and placed a scroll in the scanner. "I have already gone into that question with research technicians," he said. "And I have the figures here." He switched on the scanner and began ...
— This Crowded Earth • Robert Bloch
... 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
... told them about the UFO, but neither the pilot nor the copilot could see it because it was now directly under the B-29. The pilot was just in the process of telling him that he was crazy when one of the scanners in an aft blister called in; he and the other scanner could also see ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt
... and watered; and the officers had barely time to have their sea arrangements completed, before the frigate again expanded her canvas to a favourable breeze. In a few hours the island was left so far astern as to appear like the blue mist which so often deceives the expectant scanner of the horizon. ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat
... 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


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