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scan'ning line"




(in a cathode-ray or television tube) a single horizontal trace made by the electron beam in one traversal of the fluorescent screen. Cf. frame (def. 9).

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

scanning electron microscopescanning tunneling microscope
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