scanner
A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.
Example
“He put the picture in the scanner, then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.”
Other meanings
A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
Synonyms
- electronic scanner
A kind of
- detector
Related words
- chip scanner
- interscanner
- barcode scanner
- brain scanner
- CAT scanner
- police scanner
- slide scanner
- full body scanner
- millimeter wave scanner
- full-body scanner
- baggage scanner
- chromatoscanner
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “scanner” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.