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document
Noun
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A document is a written record, often official.
They stopped her at the airport and checked all her documents.
A number of Chinese documents from 1000 span size="-2"BCE/span were recently discovered.
On March 28, 1990, the government published a document listing the companies which it intended to privatize.
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A document is a kind of computer text file.
Can you send me that document by e-mail or fax?
We should be able to edit your document using MS Word.
document
Verb
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If you document something, you make a record of it, usually in writing.
It's important for newspaper reporters to be there to document the war.
We have documented number cases in which he has broken company policy.
scanning
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noun
the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission
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noun
the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer