Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that scans.
  • noun A receiver that continuously broadcasts signals it detects from specified radio frequencies.
  • noun An optical scanner.
  • noun A device, such as a CT scanner or PET scanner, for observing internal organs, tissues, and other parts of the body.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.
  • noun A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
  • noun A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
  • noun A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).
  • noun One who scans.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
  • noun a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area
  • noun a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition
  • noun an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer

Etymologies

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to scan + -er

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