Definitions for SCAN

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SCAN scan

Spelling: [skan]

IPA: /skæn/

Scan is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in SCAN (acns).

Definitions for SCAN

noun

1. an act or instance of scanning; close examination.
2. a visual examination by means of a television camera, as for the purpose of making visible or relaying pictures from a remote place:
3. a particular image or frame in such video observation or a photograph made from it.
4. Medicine/Medical, Biology. examination of the body or an organ or part, or a biologically active material, by means of a technique such as computed axial tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultrasonography, or scintigraphy. the image or display so obtained.

verb (used with object)

1. to glance at or over or read hastily:
2. to examine the particulars or points of minutely; scrutinize.
3. to peer out at or observe repeatedly or sweepingly, as a large expanse; survey.
4. to analyze (verse) as to its prosodic or metrical structure; read or recite (verse) so as to indicate or test the metrical form.
5. to read (data) for use by a computer or computerized device, especially using an optical scanner.
6. Television. to traverse (a surface) with a beam of light or electrons in order to reproduce or transmit a picture.
7. Radar. to traverse (a region) with a beam from a radar transmitter.
8. Medicine/Medical, Biology. to examine (a body, organ, tissue, or other biologically active material) with a scanner.

verb (used without object)

1. to examine the meter of verse.
2. (of verse) to conform to the rules of meter.
3. Television. to scan a surface or the like.

Origin of SCAN

1350-1400; Middle English scannen, variant of *scanden Late Latin scandere to scan verse, Latin: to climb (see ascend)

Examples for SCAN

So we need to think about the risk-benefit ratio of every scan we do.

Prince William was seen clutching an envelope, when they left, most likely containing images of the scan.

Kirkwood shook his head, turning to scan the seascape with a gloomy gaze.

Though the words may sound and scan the same, there is a world of difference in threat each poses to others.

Then he looked at me, and his brooding eyes seemed to scan my face.

As he sat thus, I had time to mark him well, and scan every detail of his appearance.

If this was indeed the 12-week scan, we wil probably soon get an announcement from the palace concerning Kate's due date.

No sentiment of curiosity impelled them to raise their heads and scan the tree.

We summon all our knowledge of the past and we scan all signs of the future.

Lately, Richard Dawkins seems to scan the world for sore spots, take a good poke, and revel in the ensuing outcry.