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descan

verb

Etymology

From de- + scan.

  1. derived from *skend-✻
  2. inherited from scanne — “to mark off verse to show metrical structure”
  3. prefixed as descan — “de + scan”

Definitions

  1. To reverse the path of emission from a specimen to the sensor in a microscope scan.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for descan. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA