His eyes were scanning her face, cutting like a laser through all it encountered.
Hilton, John Buxton PASSION IN THE PEAK (2002)
Ninety seconds later, she was on the roof, crouching beneath a wooden water tower, scanning her surroundings.
Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
All related terms of 'scanning'
scan
When you scan written material, you look through it quickly in order to find important or interesting information.
photoscan
a photographic scan , produced by medical technology that uses injections of radioactive substances, which shows variations in body tissues
mark scanning
the reading of marks by an optical device whereby the information can be stored in machine-readable form
scanning device
any of various devices used in medical diagnosis to obtain an image of an internal organ or part
optical scanning
the activity of using an optical scanner
interlaced scanning
a system of scanning a television picture , first along the even-numbered lines, then along the odd-numbered lines, in one complete scan
sequential scanning
a system of scanning a television picture along the lines in numerical sequence
scanning electron microscope
a type of electron microscope that produces a three-dimensional image
scanning tunneling microscope
a type of electron microscope in which moving electrode scans an object with electrons tunneling over the surface to generate a three-dimensional image that shows individual atoms
CAT scan
→ CT scan
CT scan
a scan done by a computerized tomography scanner
PET scan
a type of tomography that, through the use of radioactive tracers , shows the metabolism , as of glucose , in the body, esp. the brain: used in diagnosing abnormalities