Upscan

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An upward scan.

    "Here, we use decoupled-oscillator infrared spectroscopy to define the structural character of this phenomenon using similar down and upscan rates as in the calorimetric study."

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"Here, we use decoupled-oscillator infrared spectroscopy to define the structural character of this phenomenon using similar down and upscan rates as in the calorimetric study."

Etymology

From up- + scan.

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