Definition of "scan" []

• To examine closely. (verb-transitive)
• To look over quickly and systematically: scanning the horizon for signs of land. (verb-transitive)
• To look over or leaf through hastily: scanned the newspaper while eating breakfast. (verb-transitive)
• To analyze (verse) into metrical patterns. (verb-transitive)
• Electronics To move a finely focused beam of light or electrons in a systematic pattern over (a surface) in order to reproduce or sense and subsequently transmit an image. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Smoking weed during a brain scan is harder than it sounds: Link (Wired Science)."
• "If you dare, click on the label scan and hear a rough recording straight from the original 45."
• "A bone scan is a test that evaluates the patient's entire skeleton."