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scans

scans is the plural of scan.

scans is the third-person singular simple present indicative of scan.

Meaning of scan

Noun

scan (plural scans)

  1. Of written things, a careful reading.
    Synonyms:
    perusal
  2. Of written things, a cursory reading: a skim.
    Synonyms:
    perusal
  3. An instance of scanning.
    • The operators vacated the room during the scan.
  4. The result or output of a scanning process.
    • The doctors looked at the scans and made a diagnosis.
  5. (functional programming) A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.

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Phrases with scans

Questions about scans

What is scans the plural of?
Scans is the plural of scan.

Words near scans in the dictionary

  1. scanout
  2. scanpath
  3. scanpaths
  4. scanRNA
  5. scanRNAs
  6. scans
  7. scanscope
  8. scanscopes
  9. scansion
  10. scansioned
  11. scansioning

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