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to glance at or over or read hastily.

to examine the particulars or points of minutely; scrutinize.

to peer out at or observe repeatedly or sweepingly, as a large expanse; survey.

to analyze (verse) as to its prosodic or metrical structure; read or recite (verse) so as to indicate or test the metrical form.

to read (data) for use by a computer or computerized device, especially using an optical scanner.

Television.��to traverse (a surface) with a beam of light or electrons in order to reproduce or transmit a picture.

Radar.��to traverse (a region) with a beam from a radar transmitter.

Medicine/Medical, Biology.��to examine (a body, organ, tissue, or other biologically active material) with a scanner.

to examine the meter of verse.

(of verse) to conform to the rules of meter.

Television.��to scan a surface or the like.

an act or instance of scanning; close examination.

a visual examination by means of a television camera, as for the purpose of making visible or relaying pictures from a remote place.

a particular image or frame in such video observation or a photograph made from it.

Medicine/Medical, Biology.��

1. examination of the body or an organ or part, or a biologically active material, by means of a technique such as computed axial tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance, ultrasonography, or scintigraphy.

2. the image or display so obtained.