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rescanning

rescanning is the present participle and gerund of rescan.

Meaning of rescan

Verb

rescan (third-person singular simple present rescans, present participle rescanning, simple past and past participle rescanned)

  1. To scan again.

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Noun

rescanning (countable and uncountable, plural rescannings)

  1. The act of scanning again.

Forms of rescanning

pluralrescannings

Questions about rescanning

What does rescanning mean?
Rescanning means the act of scanning again.
What is rescanning the present participle and gerund of?
Rescanning is the present participle and gerund of rescan.
What part of speech is rescanning?
Rescanning is a noun.
What is the plural of rescanning?
The plural of rescanning is rescannings.

Words near rescanning in the dictionary

  1. rescales
  2. rescaling
  3. rescalings
  4. rescan
  5. rescanned
  6. rescanning
  7. rescannings
  8. rescans
  9. rescatter
  10. rescattered
  11. rescattering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rescanning (page history and authors); rescan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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