scanners
- 1Plural of scanner.
The hospital installed three new scanners in the imaging wing last month.
Cashiers passed each item over the scanners to ring up the total.
Note
A regular plural, formed by adding -s to an agent noun built on scan. What it counts depends on the setting: people who scan, desktop machines that digitize documents, barcode readers at a checkout, radio receivers that sweep through frequencies, and the X-ray or ultrasound machines of a hospital. Because one plural covers all of these, a qualifier such as barcode scanners or medical scanners keeps the reference clear.
scanners is a form of scanner
scanner, noun: A device that copies documents or images and converts them into a digital file. Full entry
- Forms
- scannerscanners plural
- Spelling
- scanner → scanners: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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