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  • noun Plural form of scanner.

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Examples

  • “The Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) emphasizes that a general and public use of such scanners is against the teachings of Islam, natural law and all religions and cultures that stand for decency and modesty,” the group said in a Feb. 10 statement posted at Islam Online.

    Bring on the airport body scanners « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • These notes are helpful for those beginning similar projects as benchmarks to identify what scanned images will look like online when digitized by certain scanners at certain resolutions.

    Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 2008

  • These notes are helpful for those beginning similar projects as benchmarks to identify what scanned images will look like online when digitized by certain scanners at certain resolutions.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • But the East German factory that produced the scanners is now a Volkswagen plant, and no spares are available.

    Tomorrow's 'Independent' Today Laban 2005

  • But the East German factory that produced the scanners is now a Volkswagen plant, and no spares are available.

    May 22, 2005 Laban 2005

  • But the East German factory that produced the scanners is now a Volkswagen plant, and no spares are available.

    Archive 2005-05-22 Laban 2005

  • The Obama administration has announced that a further $215 million dollars will be spent on installing virtual strip search naked body scanners, meaning the devices will be in no less than half the nation's airports by next year, but the historical record clearly shows that the scanners are a completely illegal violation of human rights.

    Information Liberation 2010

  • Synopsis: The story takes place five decades from now, when brain scanners have been perfected to the point that the government can retrieve up to five years’ worth of memories from people’s minds — even if they are dead.

    Anime Preview: Spring 2008 « Undercover 2008

  • Because of this, the new rules state that passengers' faces must be blurred and in the long term the scanners will only be able to show a matchstick picture once the technology becomes widely available.

    EU's Airports to Use Full-Body Scans Alessandro Torello 2011

  • Yes, the film is dated, but Patrick McGoohan is the man in scanners.

    #18 Comic of the Day « 1979 Semi-Finalist… 2007

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