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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How to use scanning in a sentence?

1. Max Henderson:

   Immediate, unplanned shutdowns can lead to a loss of recently gathered data regarding diagnosis, clinical notes, shift handovers and other various setbacks for the medical staff, nearly all hospitals rely on the internet for connectivity with vendors and remote offices for processing information in critical departments such as radiology, pharmacy, medical device maintenance, patient document scanning and payment processing.

2. Preston Grinstead:

   A lot of the assignments required uploading documents, scanning things, using Dropbox, emailing teachers, [His] reading level was about what you would expect of a first grader. So to expect him to be able to do that when they haven’t even really begun digging into how to use a computer, is very unrealistic.

3. Evolv CEO Peter George:

   It's barbaric if you're going to see your favorite sports team to have to go through metal detectors, this makes lines go away and it's safer because you have AI and machine learning models do the scanning.

4. John Koenig:

   While you're in it, life seems epic. Fiery, tenuous, and unpredictable. But once you have some distance from it, everything seems to shrink, until it's almost out of focus. So you begin scanning your life looking for something interesting or beautiful. But all you see is ordinary people assembled in their tiny classrooms and workspaces, each of us moving around in little steps, like tokens on a game board.

5. Bertrand Lefebvre:

   It is only when we unpacked and looked at them under the binocular [microscope], back in the laboratory in Lyon, that we could see the soft parts, their presence and identification were then confirmed by SEM (scanning electron microscope) observations and analyses.