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telescanner

noun

Etymology

From tele- + scanner.

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

Definitions

  1. A scanner, especially one able to collect information from far away.

    • "If you or Dr. Rankin cares to start a search program with the telescanner, you have my blessing."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for telescanner. 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