scanning line

noun

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

Origin of scanning line

First recorded in 1925–30

Words nearby scanning line

scandium oxide, scanner, scanning disk, scanning electron microscope, scanning force microscope, scanning line, scanning probe microscope, scanning tunneling microscope, scansion, scansorial, scant