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S vs Scanner - What's the difference?

s | scanner |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun scanner is

.

s

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)

Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    scanner

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.
    • He put the picture in the scanner , then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.
  • A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
  • A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
  • A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).
  • One who scans.

    • Derived terms

    * * full body scanner * millimeter wave scanner * X-ray scanner

    Descendants

    * German: (l)

    Anagrams

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