What is the meaning of Scan?

To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.

To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.

To look about for; to look over quickly.

  1. To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.

To perform lexical analysis; to tokenize.

To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.

To read with an electronic device.

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

To read or mark so as to show a specific metre.

To conform to a metrical structure.

Close investigation.

  1. A careful reading.

    A careful reading.

    A cursory reading: a skim.

    An instance of scanning.

    The result or output of a scanning process.

    A higher-order function that applies a binary operation to a sequence of values, starting with an accumulator, and returns a new sequence with the results.

    first/third-person singular preterite indicative of sċīnan

    Obsolete form of scaun.

    Source: wiktionary.org