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say it: SKAN-ing
scanning is a noun meaning "the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer
the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scanning come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.