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scanned-in

scanned-in adjective: having had a digital copy made on a scanner.

Adjective

scanned-in (not comparable)

  1. (Of a text or image) having had a digital copy made on a scanner.
    • Had I access to large databases of scanned-in newspapers from the Philippines, or Africa, or India, etc., we would expect to see a good percentage of antedatings of the current earliest instances.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 14

Questions about scanned-in

What does scanned-in mean?
Scanned-in means having had a digital copy made on a scanner.
What part of speech is scanned-in?
Scanned-in is an adjective.

Words near scanned-in in the dictionary

  1. Scanlons
  2. scanmag
  3. scannability
  4. scannable
  5. scanned
  6. scanned-in
  7. Scannell
  8. Scannells
  9. scanner
  10. scannerless
  11. scanners

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