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