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scanography

noun

Etymology

Blend of scan + radiography or scanner + photography.

  1. derived from -γραφία
  2. formed as radiography — “radio- + -graphy”
  3. compounded as scanography — “scan + radiography”

Definitions

  1. The production of radiographs by scanning with X-rays through a moving, thin slit.

  2. The process of capturing digitized images of objects using a flatbed scanner for the…

    The process of capturing digitized images of objects using a flatbed scanner for the purpose of creating photographic prints.

    • In 2009, she had her first exhibition at Tashkeel in Dubai where she debuted work using scanography, a process of creating photographic prints from layered images captured with a flatbed scanner.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scanography. 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