Synonyms for Scanning
scan·ning

Princeton's WordNet

1. scanningnoun

   the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer

2. scanningnoun

   the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission

Matched Categories

1. • Photography
   • Reproduction

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1. List of paraphrases for "scanning":

   scan, digitization, digitizing, digitisation, sweep, scanned, scanner, exploration, digitalisation, digitalization, digitising, swipe, browsing, analysis, sweeping, scans

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1. Robert Jan van de Kraats:

   We are looking at opportunities in the professional space, so people with a masters or bachelor's education level, we have an ambition to be come a bigger player there. So we are constantly scanning the world.

2. Steven Nissen:

   The problem in this population [of the guideline accuracy study] is that they were selected to undergo calcium scanning. we also don't place much stock in computer simulations.

3. Adrian Beck:

   Consumers are not very good at scanning reliably, why should they be ? They're not trained.

4. Darrell Miklos:

   We had at least six boats available to us, we had new technology – night vision, an underwater scanning device, and we upped our game in our magnetometer surveys.

5. Tom Painter:

   The scanning LIDAR is a fancy laser pointer, essentially, that sprays out laser pulses – about 500,000 pulses per second – flying along at 23,000 feet, and measures how long it takes for the laser pulse to go out, hit the surface and come back, and we can use that information to then know the surface of the snow. Every square foot of mountain snow is touched by our lasers.