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scanner

[skan-er] / ˈskæn ər /
NOUN
optical character recognition
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Because of this remarkable efficiency, superconductors are already key to technologies such as MRI scanners and particle accelerators.

From Science Daily

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

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times