Scan

English Meaning

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

1. To examine closely.
2. To look over quickly and systematically: scanning the horizon for signs of land.
3. To look over or leaf through hastily: scanned the newspaper while eating breakfast.
4. To analyze (verse) into metrical patterns.
5. Electronics To move a finely focused beam of light or electrons in a systematic pattern over (a surface) in order to reproduce or sense and subsequently transmit an image.
6. Electronics To move a radar beam in a systematic pattern over (a sector of sky) in search of a target.
7. Computer Science To search (stored data) automatically for specific data.
8. Medicine To examine (a body or body part) with a CAT scanner or similar scanning apparatus.
9. To digitally encode (text, for example) with an optical scanner.
10. To analyze verse into metrical patterns.
11. To conform to a metrical pattern.
12. Electronics To undergo electronic scanning.
13. The act or an instance of scanning.
14. Scope or field of vision.
15. Examination of a body or body part by a CAT scanner or similar scanning apparatus.
16. A picture or image produced by this means.
17. A single sweep of the beam of electrons across a television screen.