Crossword clues for scanner
scanner
- Supermarket gizmo
- Checkout device
- Computer add-on
- Supermarket device
- Supermarket checkout item
- Someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
- An electronic device that generates a digital representation of a document for data input to a computer
- A radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area
- An electronic detector that scans automatically for some signal or condition
- Photoelectric device
- Type of radio receiver
- Price reader
- TV device
- Radar device
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "person who examines critically," agent noun from scan (v.). From 1927 as a type of mechanical device, in mid-20c. use especially of radar and medical devices; later of computer accessories.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium. 2 A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal. 3 A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes. 4 A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode). 5 One who scans.
WordNet
n. someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables
an electronic device that generates a digital representation of an image for data input to a computer [syn: digital scanner, image scanner]
a radar dish that rotates or oscillates in order to scan a broad area
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: electronic scanner]
Wikipedia
Scanner may refer to:
Scanner (Sarah Ryall), otherwise known as Screener, is a mutant in the Marvel Comics universe
Scanner is a German power metal band that was formed in 1986. Three of the band members had previously taken part in an album release by the band Lions Breed, Damn The Night (Earthshaker 1985). The band changed its name to Scanner, adopting a science fiction image for their lyrics, album covers and live performances. They released their first album, Hypertrace, in 1988 through Noise Records. They have reformed twice, releasing their latest album on January 23, 2015, The Judgement (Massacre Records).
A scanner is a radio receiver that can automatically tune, or scan, two or more discrete frequencies, stopping when it finds a signal on one of them and then continuing to scan other frequencies when the initial transmission ceases.
The terms radio scanner or police scanner generally refer to a communications receiver that is primarily intended for monitoring VHF and UHF landmobile radio systems, as opposed to, for instance, a receiver used to monitor international shortwave transmissions.
More often than not, these scanners can also tune to different types of modulation as well ( AM, FM, WFM, etc.). Early scanners were slow, bulky, and expensive. Today, modern microprocessors have enabled scanners to store thousands of channels and monitor hundreds of channels per second. Recent models can follow trunked radio systems and decode APCO-P25 digital transmissions. Both hand held and desktop models are available. Scanners are often used to monitor police, fire and emergency medical services. Radio scanning serves an important role in the fields of journalism and crime investigation, as well as a hobby for many people around the world.
Scanner is a disk space analyzing and management tool for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It displays the disk space usage of any drive or directory in the form of a multilevel pie chart which can be navigated up and down through the directory tree. When the mouse cursor is placed above a pie the program displays which directory the pie represents, how many files it contains and the overall disk space occupied by it. A context menu allows to open the directory inside the Windows Explorer, hide and un-hide it from the diagram as well as deleting the pie from the disk either via the Recycle Bin or permanently.
Initially released in 1999, it is an early example of the sunburst method of visualising disk usage and inspired the KDE package Filelight.
Usage examples of "scanner".
Scanner hurled himself toward Maro, knocking the smuggler off his feet.
He had posed a challenging problem, in the central area where my own ego lies: How does one make an efficient device for telomere inspection, without genome scanners or anything else involving microchip technology?
That cannon, according to our scanner analyses, is a multistage energy pump.
The high-energy proton spectrpmetry clusters flunked out, too, as did the gravimetric distortion mapping scanner, the fixed angle gamma frequency counter, the wide-angle EM radiation imaging scanner, the quark population analysis counter, the Z-range particulate spectrometry sensor, the low-frequency EM flux sensor, the localized subspace field stress sensor, the parametric subspace field stress sensor, the hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner, the linear calibration subspace flux sensor, the variable band optical imagining cluster, the virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer, the high-resolution graviton flux spectrometer, the very low energy graviton spin pola-rimeter, the passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor, the low-level imagining sensor, the virtual particle mapping camera, and even the life-form analysis instrument counter.
Steel lockers took up one side of the room, tools hung neatly, racks of equipment and scanners.
The same filtering technology, repurposed in my homemade scanner, is what made my parking-lot forays productive.
General Scalene puts on the skin and just walks out the front door, fooling all your scanners on the way.
The horizon scanner chirruped, and Alae aimed the display projector at her retina.
Carpenter, with his identification plaque strapped to the palm of his open upraised hand for easy display to every laser scanner he met along the way, went from level to level, up one and down the next, following the portentous instructions of invisible metallic voices, until at last he came to the waterfront itself, ashimmer in a bright green haze of midday heat.
Their Qin battleships were coiling around the asteroid belt on thrusters, a long two-day journey, in order to avoid the scanners on the mining station until the last possible moment.
However, the biofilter will be inoperational, and targeting scanners may not be capable of creating a transporter lock.
Greyhorse with a computer, a biomolecular scanner, and the rest of the equipment he had requested.
Joseph stopped for a moment to shift the weight of the biomolecular scanner on his back, then fell back into his plodding forward rhythm.
The scanner glows with blacklight, an eldritch sparkle, as the lock reads her soul-engrams through the hollow of her eye.
Scanner and Raze with buckets of the fine, dustlike sand as the creature swiftly dug its way back out of sight.