scanner

名词 n.
/ˈskænə/    /ˈskænɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who scans.
    — It is, perhaps, too much to assume that an elderly Melville read James, but he was an eager scanner of magazines and did read fiction in his later years.
  2. 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.
  3. A device which scans barcodes or QR codes for the purpose of charging a customer, performing a price check or enquiry, printing a price label or sticker, checking an item in or out of the store or warehouse, or finding an item ordered through click and collect and its corresponding location; a pricing gun or HHT.
  4. A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
  5. A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
    — Chorban: I'm using a small scanner to gather readings on the keepers. Chorban: So far, I've had mixed results. I find it difficult to get near the creatures.
  6. A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).

词形变化

scanners plural

词源

Etymology tree
English scan
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English scanner
From scan + -er.
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