scan
Definitions
verb
To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
She scanned the passage carefully but could not find what she was looking for.
He scanned the horizon.
To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
to scan the hard drive for errors
To look about for; to look over quickly.
To look about for; to look over quickly.
To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
to scan a photograph
to scan internal organs by means of computed tomography
noun
A close investigation.
A close investigation.
An instance of scanning.
The operators vacated the room during the scan.
In the dispute with the RMT about scanning tickets, Jackson said it was the right thing to do to pay conductors something to scan tickets. Northern pays two pence per scan, Jackson noted, adding that ticket scanning helps to cut fraud and increase staff visibility.
The result or output of a scanning process.
The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.
A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.