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scanning

verbnounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈskænɪŋ//

The act of something being scanned.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of scanpresent participle and gerund of scan

noun

  1. 1

    The act of something being scanned.

    In the other case the scanner performs a given number of scannings, thus giving an automatic display of the complete set of measuring points.

    In the dispute with the RMT about scanning tickets, Jackson said it was the right thing to do to pay conductors something to scan tickets. Northern pays two pence per scan, Jackson noted, adding that ticket scanning helps to cut fraud and increase staff visibility.

Forms

plural
scannings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).