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n. (plural of scanner English)

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Scanners

Scanners is a 1981 Canadian science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Steven Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan. In the film, "scanners" are people with unusual telepathic and telekinetic powers. ConSec, a purveyor of weaponry and security systems, searches out scanners to use them for its own purposes. The film's plot concerns the attempt by Darryl Revok, a renegade scanner, to wage a war against ConSec. Another scanner, Cameron Vale, is dispatched by ConSec to stop Revok.

Scanners (band)

Scanners are an alternative band from London, England formed around 2004.

Scanners (album)

Scanners is the second album by Kontour, released on Some Bizzare Records.

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It was certainly safest: the security patrols were at their strongest at night, and the checkpoints and scanners were all in operation.

They saw how easily they had been invaded and now they would have to go back to the old time-wasting ID system, and all the checks: scanners, roadblocks, watchtowers, and aerial patrols.

He glanced around the hazy tropical sky, then finally remembered that his long-range scanners would work here and slapped a hand down to activate the vessel-detection screen.

Was there some minimum firing range they needed for the energy weapons that his scanners showed being fired now from several ships?

Just as he expected, the long-range scanners reported his chasers doing the same thing.

Sulu suspected was one of the Gorn weapons scanners, but several gates and inspection points still lay ahead of them.

The Vulcan security scanners are undoubtedly programmed to detect postmortem decay.

Randall turned to his scanners, and Ferrol keyed for the cargo bay and lander.

However, given our previous failure to locate the lost survey team on long-range scanners, I estimate the probability of our being able to carry them out to be less than thirty-five percent.

On the other hand, long-range scanners were close to useless in a cloud of ionized interstellar gas.

They used scanners and sound equipment to search the interior of Firehills for intruders.

It was invisible to any search plane: Fisher himself had not seen it with any of the scanners or scopes.

She even enjoyed the ritual at checkpointsthe scanners, the sight of armed guards and Federals.

There will be fine-definition scanners tied to far-off television receivers.

A veritable litter of scanners, photo-sensitive cells, partly assembled stereo-screens, radio components, wire golliwogs and schematic diagrams marred with doodles lay scattered over tables the size of rooms.