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scanline

scanline is the alternative spelling of scan line.

Meaning of scan line

Noun

scan line (plural scan lines)

  1. One of the horizontal lines that compose a raster scanning pattern, as on a television or computer display.
  2. A single row of pixels in a raster graphics image.

Forms of scanline

pluralscanlines

Origin of scanline

From scan + line.

Questions about scanline

What is scanline the alternative spelling of?
Scanline is the alternative spelling of scan line.

Words near scanline in the dictionary

  1. scanlation
  2. scanlations
  3. scanlator
  4. scanlators
  5. scanless
  6. scanline
  7. scanlines
  8. Scanlon
  9. Scanlons
  10. scanmag
  11. scannability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scanline (page history and authors); scan line (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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