Definitions from Wiktionary (scan)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
▸ verb:  (computing, transitive) To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To look about for; to look over quickly.
▸ verb:  (computing, transitive) To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.
▸ verb:  (computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.
▸ verb:  (computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive, originally) To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
▸ verb:  (poetry, transitive) To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.
▸ verb:  (poetry, intransitive) To conform to a metrical structure.
▸ noun:  Close investigation.
▸ noun:  (of written things) A careful reading.
▸ noun:  (of written things) A cursory reading: a skim.
▸ noun:  (computing) An instance of scanning.
▸ noun:  (computing) The result or output of a scanning process.
▸ noun:  (functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.

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