scanner

English Wikipedia has an article on:

scanner

Wikipedia

From scan +‎ -er.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈskænɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈskænə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)

scanner (plural scanners)

1. One who scans.
   • 1997, Douglas Robillard, Melville and the Visual Arts: Ionian Form, Venetian Tint, page 17:

     It is, perhaps, too much to assume that an elderly Melville read James, but he was an eager scanner of magazines and did read fiction in his later years.

2. A device which scans documents in order to convert them to a digital medium.

   He put the picture in the scanner, then e-mailed a copy of it to his family.

3. A device which scans barcodes or QR codes for the purpose of charging a customer, performing a price check or enquiry, printing a price label or sticker, checking an item in or out of the store or warehouse, or finding an item ordered through click and collect and its corresponding location; a pricing gun or HHT.
4. A radio receiver which iterates through a sequence of frequencies to detect signal.
5. A device which uses radiation (ultrasound, X-ray, etc.) to generate images of tissue or surfaces for diagnostic purposes.
   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

     Chorban: I'm using a small scanner to gather readings on the keepers.
     Chorban: So far, I've had mixed results. I find it difficult to get near the creatures.

6. A device which uses optics to detect printed data (such as a barcode).

• canners

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

scanner

Wikipedia ^nl

Borrowed from English scanner.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɛ.nər/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: scan‧ner

scanner m (plural scanners, diminutive scannertje n)

1. scanner (scanning device)

Borrowed from English scan.

• IPA^(key): /ska.ne/

• Audio:

  (file)

scanner

1. to scan (to create a digital copy of an image using a scanner)

• scanneur
• scantrad

• “scanner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Borrowed from English scan +‎ -er.

scanner (gerund scann'nie)

1. (Jersey, computing, etc.) to scan

• scanneu (“scanner”)

Unadapted borrowing from English scanner.

scanner m (plural scanners)

1. Alternative form of escâner
2. Alternative form of scâner

scanner m (plural scanners or scanner)

1. Alternative spelling of escáner

• skanner

scanner c

1. a scanner (e.g. a document scanner or barcode reader)

   Synonym: bildläsare

• scanna (“to scan”)
• scanning

• scanner in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• scanner in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)