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Reading without the commitment issues of actually reading.
means To run your eyes quickly over something to get the gist, rather than reading it closely word by word.
from From Latin 'scandere,' meaning to climb — originally used for scanning verse, literally 'climbing' up through a line of poetry foot by foot to check its rhythm and meter. The sense shifted from careful metrical analysis to today's much looser meaning of a quick once-over, picking up speed (and losing precision) along the way, especially once it got attached to machines and eyeballs skimming surfaces rather than scholars counting syllables.
- eye behavior
- jumps in an F-shaped pattern on screens
- origin
- latin scandere, to climb verse meter
- irony
- security scans are themselves a hacker target
- medical cousin
- CT scan slices you into 2d gossip