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scanner

noun as in optical character recognition

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North opens the door to her Lego room via a fingerprint scanner.

A laptop on the center console dings like a supermarket scanner every time license-plate readers attached to the truck capture another car’s tag—and the computer squawks when it spots a possible repo candidate.

He had us step on a body composition scanner, which looked like a slender scale.

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Last year, an archivist located the negative and brought it to one of Bettmann’s labs, where she placed it on a flatbed scanner.

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The researchers are exploring how the method could be adapted for wider clinical use, including on more commonly available 3T MRI scanners.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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