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noun

scanning

SKA-nihng
noun
1
The act of passing something through a scanner or examining it closely.
"Scanning the old photographs took most of the afternoon."

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In plain EnglishThe process of scanning something — digitizing it or reading over it quickly.

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scannings plural

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