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Plural of scan

regular plural

The plural of scan is scans.

Forms of scan

Singularscan /skæn/
Pluralscans
Countablecountable

Scans in a sentence

  • The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.
  • Brain scans were graded on a five-point scale of atrophy.From the entry grade
  • In the discount bin by the door sat a pile of pan and scans, mostly comedies, that no one would touch.From the entry pan and scan
  • Google Book Search is a tool from Google that searches the full text of books that Google scans, OCRs, and stores in its digital database.From the entry OCR
  • We calculated change in attenuation of the obstruction between the two scans.2015 December 24, “Effect of X-Ray Attenuation of Arterial Obstructions on Intravenous Thrombolysis and Outcome after Ischemic Stroke”, in…. From the entry hyperattenuated

Meaning of scan

  1. verb To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.
  2. verb To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
  3. verb To look about for; to look over quickly.

Full definition of scan

Questions about the plural of scan

What is the plural of scan?
The plural of scan is scans.
Is scan countable?
Scan is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scan (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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