Scanner
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Scanner may refer to a number of technological devices:
- Scanner (radio), a device for searching for and receiving radio broadcasts
- Image scanner, a general-purpose device which digitizes a two-dimensional image
- Scanner (Code Lyoko), a fictional teleportation device used in Code Lyoko.
- 3D scanner, a device that digitizes the three-dimensional shape of a real object
- Barcode reader, a device that reads the data encoded in a barcode
- A vulnerability scanner is a computer program that probes a remote system, typically to discover vulnerabilities
- A scanner is the first stage of a lexical analyzer in computer programming
- In photolithography, a scanner is a type of stepper used to sequentially expose a semiconducting silicon wafer to an integrated circuit design pattern projected through a reticle
- In radar, the term "scanner" refers to a rotating antenna
- In broadcasting, a television outside broadcast control vehicle is sometimes known as a scanner.
- A scanner is a spotlight which can move its beam with help of a mirror controlled by a remote control or computer program
In popular culture, Scanner may refer to:
- Scanners, a 1981 sci-fi horror movie
- Scanner is the stage name of Robin Rimbaud
- Scanner (musical group), a German metal band
- A Scanner Darkly is a science fiction novel by Phillip K. Dick
- Scanner is a floating enemy in the computer game Half Life 2
- Cordwainer Smith's science fiction Scanners, workers whose sensory nerves have been cut to block the "pain of space".
- Scanner_(software) A Disk scan utility (freeware)
See also: scan
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