Usually means: Examine closely for specific purpose.
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We found 60 dictionaries that define the word scan:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. scan: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scan: Merriam-Webster
  3. scan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scan: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scan: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scan, Scan, scan, scan: Wordnik
  8. scan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. scan: Wiktionary
  10. scan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scan: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scan, scan: Dictionary.com
  14. scan (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. scan: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. SCAN (disambiguation), SCAN (newspaper), SCAN, Scan (company), Scan (organisation), Scan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Scan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. scan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. scan: Rhymezone
  20. Scan (m), scan, scan (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. scan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. scan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scan: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. scan: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. scan: FreeDictionary.org

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. scan: Global Glossary
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. scan-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. SCAN: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scan: Legal dictionary
  2. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCAN, scan: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. scan: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. scan: Hacking Lexicon
  5. scan: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. scan: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Scan: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. scan: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  6. Scan: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  7. scan: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  8. scan: Medical dictionary
  9. Scan: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  11. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCAN: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scan, Scan: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scan: The Folk File
  3. Scan: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCAN: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. Scan: Data Acquisition
  5. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See scannable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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