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portscanner

noun

Etymology

From port + scanner.

  1. derived from *skend-✻
  2. inherited from scanne — “to mark off verse to show metrical structure”
  3. formed as scanner — “scan + -er”
  4. compounded as portscanner — “port + scanner”

Definitions

  1. A software program that performs portscans.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for portscanner. 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