Scanless

adj, slang

adj, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Scandalous, shameful. slang

    "Both of us messed over my first wife a scanless. And she never told nobody. Plus, she didn't have nobody to tell."

  2. 2
    Without being scanned.

    "For one who before cancer had lived his life with almost no thought of illness, I wondered more than once whether I wasn't overreacting by requesting too many CAT scans. Still, this would be the first in five months, the longest I had gone scanless since diagnosis."

  3. 3
    Not involving or requiring scanning.

    "Here, we developed a technique based on patterned two-photon illumination to allow fast scanless imaging of GCaMP6 signals in the intact mouse brain at the same time as single-photon optogenetic inhibition with Archaerhodopsin. Using combined imaging and electrophysiological recording, we demonstrate that single and short bursts of action potentials in pyramidal neurons can be detected in the scanless modality at acquisition frequencies up to 1kHz."

Example

More examples

"Both of us messed over my first wife a scanless. And she never told nobody. Plus, she didn't have nobody to tell."

Etymology

Etymology 1

A pronunciation spelling of scandalous.

Etymology 2

From scan + -less.

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