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scanner (iou)



scanner noun. M16.
[from SCAN verb + -ER1.]
A person who scans or critically examines something. M16.
F. Mahony The..philosopher, the scanner of whate'er lies hidden in..the human heart. B. Vine The dipper into magazines, the desultory scanner of newsprint.
A person who scans verse. E19.
A device for scanning or systematically examining something, esp. a device for representing the intensities of an image in digitized form. E20.
b. Television. Any of several devices that permit the sequential transmission of an image or its subsequent reconstruction in a receiver. E20.
c. A radar aerial that scans a large area, esp. by rotating or oscillating. M20.
d. Medicine. A machine for scanning (part of) the body and measuring the intensity of the radiation from different areas as a diagnostic aid after administration of a radioisotope. Also, a machine using ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, tomography, etc., to obtain a visual representation of internal organs. M20.