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'''Scan''' may refer to:
Acronyms:
- Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN), a psychiatric diagnostic tool developed by WHO
- Shared Check Authorization Network (SCAN), a database of bad check writers and collection agency for bad checks
- Space Communications and Navigation Program (SCaN)
Businesses:
- Scan Furniture, a retail chain based in Washington, D.C. specializing in Scandinavian furniture
- Scan AB or Scan Foods UK Ltd, the Swedish and UK subsdiaries of the Finnish HKScan|HKScan Oyj
- Scan.co.uk is an enthusiast electronics retailer
Electronics or computer related:
- Counter-scanning, in physical micro and nanotopography measuring instruments
- Elevator algorithm (also SCAN) disk scheduling algorithm
- Image scanner
- image scanning
- Optical character recognition, optical recognition of printed text or printed sheet music
- Port scanner in computer networking
- Prefix sum is an operation on lists that is also known as the scan operator
- Scan chain, a type of manufacturing test used with Integrated Circuit|Integrated Circuits
- Switch Access Scanning, a technique that allows users with motor or cognitive impairments to use a computer using switch access
Medical:
- medical ultrasonography, the medical procedure for examining internal structures, especially when applied to developing foetuses in the womb
- X-ray computed tomography
- magnetic resonance imaging
Other uses:
- Systems of scansion, the analysis of writing and verse regarding rhythmic and especially metrical structure
- ''Scan (Prison Break episode)'', an episode of the television series ''Prison Break''
- Scan (horse) (born 1988), an American thoroughbred racehorse and stallion

See also


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