scan : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: scan	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for scan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
scan n the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars" an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" Synonym(s): scan, CAT scan v examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray" examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" Synonym(s): scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky" conform to a metrical pattern move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image read metrically; "scan verses" obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer" Synonym(s): read, scan
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scan \Scan\ (sk[acr]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scanned} (sk[acr]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Scanning}.] [L. scandere, scansum, to climb, to scan, akin to Skr. skand to spring, leap: cf. F. scander. Cf. {Ascend}, {Descend}, {Scale} a ladder.] 1. To mount by steps; to go through with step by step. [Obs.] Nor stayed till she the highest stage had scand. --Spenser.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
scan 1. (computer peripheral) See {scanner}. 2. (circuit design) See {scan design}. 3. ({functional programming}) See {scanl}, {scanr}. 4. An algorithm for scheduling multiple accesses to a disk. A number of requests are ordered according to the data's position on the storage device. This reduces the disk arm movement to one "scan" or sweep across the whole disk in the worst case. The serivce time can be estimated from the disk's track-to-track {seek} time, maximum seek time (one scan), and maximum {rotational latency}. {Scan-EDF} is a variation on this. (1995-11-15)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
SCAN 1. ["A Parallel Implementation of the SCAN Language", N.G. Bourbakis, Comp Langs 14(4):239-254 (1989)]. 2. A {real-time} language from {DEC}. [Are these the same language?] (1994-11-01)