Close investigation.

(computing) An instance of scanning.

(computing) The result or output of a scanning process.

(transitive) To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely.

(transitive) Look about for or look over quickly, inspect or analyze to find something, and perform lexical analysis or tokenize in computing.

(computing, medicine, transitive) To create an image of something with the use of a scanner.

(computing, transitive) To read with an electronic device.

(poetry, transitive) To read or mark text in a specific meter or conform to a metrical structure.