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What is a scanner?

What is a scanner? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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.
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With the end result that I had to repackage the scanner and cart it down to the post office and send it back by recorded delivery.
The scanner reads the barcode into the spreadsheet, and the calipers magically transmit your measurements there as well.
What was intended as an investigation into how well the carvings would be recorded by a laser scanner, turned into a major discovery.
We were always being made to wait for appointments on the scanner at Scarborough.
A simple port scanner can be written in under 15 minutes by a good programmer in a language such as Java or Perl.
The radioactive glucose emits gamma rays which are then detected by the scanner.

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