Police Definition–noun | 1. | Also called police force. an organized civil force for maintaining order, preventing and detecting crime, and enforcing the laws. | | 2. | (used with a plural verb ) members of such a force: Several police are patrolling the neighborhood. | | 3. | the regulation and control of a community, esp. for the maintenance of public order, safety, health, morals, etc. | | 4. | the department of the government concerned with this, esp. with the maintenance of order. | | 5. | any body of people officially maintained or employed to keep order, enforce regulations, etc. | | 6. | people who seek to regulate a specified activity, practice, etc.: the language police. | | 7. | Military. (in the U.S. Army) | a. | the cleaning and keeping clean of a camp, post, station, etc. | | b. | the condition of a camp, post, station, etc., with reference to cleanliness. | | –verb (used with object) | 8. | to regulate, control, or keep in order by or as if by means of police. | | 9. | Military. to clean and keep clean (a camp, post, etc.) | |
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Scanner Definition–noun | 1. | a person or thing that scans. | | 3. | Photography. any device for exposing an image on film, a sensitized plate, etc., by tracing light along a series of many closely spaced parallel lines. | | 4. | (in aerial photography) a device for estimating the ratio of aircraft speed to aircraft altitude. | | 5. | a photoelectric device for scanning a picture to determine automatically the density of the hue or value in each area for transmission by wire or radio or for preparation of color process printing plates. | | 6. | a computer-aided electronic system using photoelectric cells to separate copy, as color illustrations, into its primary colors, correct color copy, and produce a set of color separations ready for proofing or printing. | | 7. | Radio. a radio receiver, used esp. by police, firefighters, and the press, that continuously tunes to preselected frequencies, broadcasting any signal that it detects. | | 8. | Medicine/Medical, Biology. a device for examining a body, organ, tissue, or other biologically active material. | |
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