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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1. Paul Trombino:

   As long as they’re looking out front or to the sides and constantly moving, making sure they’re constantly scanning the roads, the message will clearly connect with them.

2. College President Sandy Shugart:

   Following a comprehensive external investigation and a thorough internal review, we identified teaching methods that employ sophisticated simulators and have decided to permanently discontinue the use of student volunteers for transvaginal ultrasound scanning.

3. Tom Painter:

   The scanning LIDAR is a fancy laser pointer, essentially, that sprays out laser pulses – about 500,000 pulses per second – flying along at 23,000 feet, and measures how long it takes for the laser pulse to go out, hit the surface and come back, and we can use that information to then know the surface of the snow. Every square foot of mountain snow is touched by our lasers.

4. Amnesty International:

   The use of cloud services protects NSO Group from some Internet scanning techniques.

5. Darrell Miklos:

   We had at least six boats available to us, we had new technology – night vision, an underwater scanning device, and we upped our game in our magnetometer surveys.