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the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region; “he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars”
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an image produced by scanning; “he analyzed the brain scan”; “you could see the tumor in the CAT scan”
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verb
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examine minutely or intensely; “the surgeon scanned the X-ray”
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examine hastily; “She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi”
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make a wide, sweeping search of; “The beams scanned the night sky”
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conform to a metrical pattern
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move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
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read metrically; “scan verses”
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obtain data from magnetic tapes; “This dictionary can be read by the computer”
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