English

Adjective

unscanned ‎(not comparable)

1. Not having been scanned.
   • 2015, Martin Bland, An Introduction to Medical Statistics, ISBN 0191002992, page 5:

     The scanned 1978 patient did better than the unscanned 1974 patient in 31% of pairs, whereas the unscanned 1974 patient did better than the scanned 1978 patient in only 7% of pairs.

   • 1991, 'Optical Digital Image Storage System: project report:

     Rescanning and replacement scanning of previously unscanned images, including those missed by the high-speed scanner operator or those considered inappropriate for processing by high-speed scanner[.]

   • 1998, Donna Avila-Weil & ‎Mary Glaccum, The Independent Medical Transcriptionist, ISBN 1877810231, page 156:

     We recommend never taking unscanned work because it frequently results in problems for the transcriptionist.

2. Involving a technique that does not involve scanning, where an alternative technique that does involve scanning exists.
   • 1978, Allen Kent, ‎Harold Lancour, ‎& Jay E. Daily, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, ISBN 0824720245:

     This provided an input speed that exceeded the capability of unscanned image filmsetters. Unscanned filmsetter devices use a moving matrix grid or a stationary character grid with electromechanical control of character selection for photographic recording.

   • 1995, Lee W. Goldman & ‎J. Brian Fowlkes, Medical CT & Ultrasound: Current Technology and Applications:

     For unscanned modes which do not involve electronic or mechanical steering of the acoustic beam, the potential for significant temperature increase is the greatest

3. Unobserved, unexamined, or unconsidered.
   • 1607, Shakespeare, Coriolanus:

     This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find The harm of unscanned swiftness, will too late Tie leaden pounds to 's heels.

   • 2007, Joannes De Sancto Geminiano, The Legend of the Holy Fina, Virgin of Santo Gemignano, ISBN 1602064970, page xiii:

     The birth of a legend or tradition occurs, how we know not, in fancy's dim and unscanned regions

   • 2014, William John Law, The Alps of Hannibal - Volume 2, ISBN 1108079504, page 246:

     Such sentiments are not those of a contemner of divine power, but of one who believed in the ever-present miracle, unscanned by human reason,—the government of the invisible God.

4. Having no consistent meter.
   • 2011, Walter Pater, The Works of Walter Pater, ISBN 1108034233, page 168:

     The music of the measured, scanned verse of Latin and Greek poetry is one thing ; the music of the rhymed, unscanned verse of Villon and the old French poets, la poe'sie chante'e, is another.