WordNet
n. a radio receiver that that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for for some signal or condition; "they used scanners to monitor police radio channels" [syn: scanner]
Usage examples of "electronic scanner".
By early afternoon, after being frisked and probed -- first by an electronic scanner to root out hidden lethal devices, then by a poisonsnooper -- Duncan was finally ushered inside the Castle.
A touch activated the wide band circling his left wrist, the device ensuring that no electronic scanner could focus on his vicinity.
Nachman opened them by gently pressing his thumb against a small electronic scanner.
Easter Seals and a variety of other type stamps usually get by the electronic scanner.
As was to be expected, the former bowed his apology and moved an electronic scanner up and down the clothes of Webb and his driver.
Bruce Wayne saw a red flash and felt a brush of an electronic scanner.
No object or person could cross a window space without activating the electronic scanner.
Beyond that, any electronic scanner buzzing along the lines, as they often did throughout Moscow, could record and store the call.
There was a further security check at the entrance, and even the minister was asked to pass through the electronic scanner.
He ran the sketches through an electronic scanner that transferred the images to his computer monitor.