interlaced scanning

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a system of scanning a television picture, first along the even-numbered lines, then along the odd-numbered lines, in one complete scan

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Words nearby interlaced scanning

interjoist, interkinesis, interknit, interknot, interlace, interlaced scanning, interlacing arcade, Interlaken, interlaminate, interlanguage, interlap

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How to use interlaced scanning in a sentence

After the scanning takes place, KSM is led down a long corridor flanked by chain-link fences.
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But one day, scanning the classified ads in The Minneapolis Tribune, she saw a job opportunity that appealed to her.
Gay Talese on Charlie Manson’s Home on the Range|Gay Talese|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Even if you skip the math, merely scanning his list of corollaries is helpful.
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The security scanning at Kuala Lumpur failed to register anything.
Flight 370 Was Carrying 440 Pounds of Dangerous Batteries|Clive Irving|May 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The female brain is always observing, always scanning, always ready to fight or flight.
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The band of guerrillas had seen them, and halted, and were scanning them carefully, as if debating whether to advance or not.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
Automatic pencil poised, he was scanning the crossword puzzle intently.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Being yet a young man, just scanning forty, he is one among the extraordinary men of the times.
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States|Martin R. Delany
Under Nurse-tales, I include the extremely puerile stories of the nursery, often (as in the German ones) interlaced with rhymes.
Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853|Various
The ramparts were of earth, planted on the exterior slope with a thick mass of thorn-bushes, interlaced and strengthened by posts.
Belgium|George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond