scan.
(Of the part of sweep).
2. m. sweepings.
3. m. automatic process by which measured sequential and repeatedly the various magnitudes of a system control. That is, for example, performs the automatic pilot of an aircraft.
4. m. Fís. Process by which a device systematically explores a space to transform the image of each of its points into communicable electrical signals which allow recover here
in a reverse process, as that serves basis for television, radar, the microscope of scanning, etc.