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Scanner vs Scanning - What's the difference?

scanner | scanning |

As nouns the difference between scanner and scanning

is that scanner is while scanning is the act of something being scanned.

As a verb scanning is

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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

    * ----

    scanning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something being scanned.
  • * 1994 , IGIC, Inc. Staff, Fiber Optic Sensors (page 147)
    • In the other case the scanner performs a given number of scannings , thus giving an automatic display of the complete set of measuring points.