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electronic scanner

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Noun1.electronic scanner - a radio receiver that moves automatically across some selected range of frequencies looking for some signal or condition; "they used scanners to monitor police radio channels"
detector - electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity


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Following routine inspections in February, March and October 1998, county Department of Weights and Measures inspectors found that the stores' electronic scanner systems overcharged by more than $1 the posted price on 21 of 120 items, according to Deputy City Attorney Don Cocek.
Using an electronic scanner, they could discern the slight shifts in position, relative to a fixed background of distant galaxies, of 250 LMC stars during those 15 years.
The PlayGrid device reads, decodes and stores information from cards that are swiped through its electronic scanner.
 
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