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- verb Present participle of
scan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer
- noun the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission
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