What does scanner mean?

Definitions for scanner
ˈskæn ərscan·ner

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. scannernoun

    someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables

  2. scanner, digital scanner, image scannernoun

    an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer

  3. scannernoun

    a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area

  4. scanner, electronic scannernoun

    a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition

    "they used scanners to monitor police radio channels"

Wiktionary

  1. scannernoun

    A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.

    He put the picture in the scanner, then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.

  2. scannernoun

    A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.

  3. scannernoun

    A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.

  4. scannernoun

    A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).

  5. scannernoun

    One who scans.

ChatGPT

  1. scanner

    A scanner is an electronic device that converts images, text, or printed documents into digital format, allowing the information to be viewed, edited, and stored on a computer. It can also refer to a device or software that systematically examines or checks something, such as barcodes, computer systems, radio frequencies, etc., to gather specific information.

Wikidata

  1. Scanner

    Robin Rimbaud is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance. He is also a member of the band Githead with Wire's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel and Max Franken from Minimal Compact. Rimbaud is also a writer and media critic, multi-media artist and record producer. He borrowed his stage name from the device he used in his early recordings, picking up indeterminate radio and mobile phone signals in the airwaves and using them as an instrument in his compositions.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scanner in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scanner in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of scanner in a Sentence

  1. Brandon Bell/Getty Images:

    We saw that there were some scanner problems, the scanner is the device that actually takes an image of the ballot and records the ballot, we saw that there were some duo problems – the duo is the device where the voter actually makes their selections and prints their selections onto the ballot. We saw that there were some ballot jams.

  2. Elizabeth Dodson:

    Buy a scanner to scan all that paper. And find a mobile app to take pictures of that paper, so you can turn it into a digital record. Decide on a digital place to store this information, such as generic cloud platforms or specific digital home management platforms, you can even create a digital calendar that reminds you of important tasks, so you can eliminate the paper lists of to-dos. The end result is peace of mind in being digitally organized around everything in your home from remodel projects, maintenance and fix-it tasks, home finances, and all your home documents easily searchable and retrievable whenever you need it.

  3. Toby Norman:

    Getting patient application right is absolutely essential, at Simprints we do three things to get that right. First we don't work with patient medical records, so we never store or hold access to patient data. That's all held by the organizations we work with. Second we never transmit raw fingerprint images, so we actually do the extraction process where we take a fingerprint image and turn it into a template. We do that on the scanner itself, meaning that the fingerprint image never leaves the scanner. Third we use the same level of encryptions that we use in online banking or financial transactions that secure any data that passes between the phone and the server.

  4. Colleague Robert Breitbeck:

    We have our Virtobot system with an industrial scanner and with this equipment we can scan the skin with the pattern injury in color and true to scale so we can store it, and later we can combine it with 3D data which the police scans together with us and with this 3D data we have a basis we can do the 3D reconstructions or visualizations of murder cases or traffic accidents.

  5. Radiologist Steffen Ross:

    The first step would be to do the data acquisition which we use a 3D scanner for, we scan the crime scene and we are also able to scan the dead body, if there is a dead body involved, and then we can put all the data together in the computer and create a virtual crime scene, which is a 3D model of the crime scene, so a re-enactment of the crime.

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