SCANS

v. convert an object or image into a digital image using an optical scanner (Computers); browse, glance at quickly; examine a body part through the use of medical imaging techniques (Medicine); determine the meter of a verse

n. act of scanning, close examination, scrutinizing look; computerized images created by an optical scanner (Computers); computerized image of the human body created through the use of medical imaging techniques (Medicine)

The Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) was appointed in 1990 by Elizabeth Hanford Dole, the Secretary of the United States Department of Labor. The commission was made up of twenty-five concerned businessmen and -women from varying locations. The SCANS' job was to examine the demands of the future workplace. The SCANS eventually developed a system of skills "that high-performance workplaces require and that high-performance schools should produce." It consists of five basic competencies that are built on a three-part foundation, which define what an effective worker should know and have skill in.
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Scan 1. to examine or map the body, or one or more organs or regions of it, by gathering information with a sensing device. 2. [more]Scans - Community and Resources

Noun
1. the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars"
(hypernym) examination, scrutiny
2. an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan"
(synonym) CAT scan
(hypernym) picture, image, icon, ikon
Verb
1. examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray"
(hypernym) examine, see
(hyponym) glass
(derivation) CAT scan
2. examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
(synonym) skim, rake, glance over, run down
(hypernym) examine, see
3. make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky"
(hypernym) search
4. conform to a metrical pattern
(hypernym) conform
(classification) poetry, poesy, verse
5. move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image
(hypernym) move, displace
(derivation) scanner, digital scanner, image scanner
6. read metrically; "scan verses"
(hypernym) declaim, recite
(derivation) scansion
7. obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
(synonym) read
(hypernym) interpret, construe, see
(hyponym) misread

1. ["A Parallel Implementation of the SCAN Language", N.G. Bourbakis, Comp Langs 14(4):239-254 (1989)].
2. A real-time language from DEC.
[Are these the same language?]
(1994-11-01)

1. (computer peripheral) See scanner.
2. (circuit design) See scan design.
3. (functional programming) See scanl, scanr.
4. <storage, algorithm> An algorithm for scheduling multiple accesses to a disk. A number of requests are ordered according to the data's position on the storage device. This reduces the disk arm movement to one "scan" or sweep across the whole disk in the worst case. The serivce time can be estimated from the disk's track-to-track seek time, maximum seek time (one scan), and maximum rotational latency.
Scan-EDF is a variation on this.
(1995-11-15)