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The act of moving across a surface (or solid angle) and applying the same experimental technique at each point (See sampling) in order to map out some property of the surface. For example, in scanning the intensities of parts of a visual image, the image is examined in successive scan lines, in a similar way to the raster scan of a television set.  

 

 

 
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