Scanner

//ˈskænɚ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who scans.

    "It is, perhaps, too much to assume that an elderly Melville read James, but he was an eager scanner of magazines and did read fiction in his later years."

  2. 2
    a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition wordnet
  3. 3
    A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.

    "He put the picture in the scanner, then e-mailed a copy of it to his family."

  4. 4
    a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area wordnet
  5. 5
    A device which scans barcodes or QR codes for the purpose of charging a customer, performing a price check or enquiry, printing a price label or sticker, checking an item in or out of the store or warehouse, or finding an item ordered through click and collect and its corresponding location; a pricing gun or HHT.
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  1. 6
    an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer wordnet
  2. 7
    A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
  3. 8
    someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables wordnet
  4. 9
    A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.

    "Chorban: I'm using a small scanner to gather readings on the keepers. Chorban: So far, I've had mixed results. I find it difficult to get near the creatures."

  5. 10
    A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).

Etymology

From scan + -er.

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