English
Etymology
term|scan + term|-o, by analogy with term|typo, as if formed a similar way from term|type
Noun
en-noun
- A typographical error introduced by optical character recognition (OCR) software, which may mistake a letter or set of letters for a letter or set of letters of similar shape, as *term||tum for term|turn, or *term||google:Dosition|Dosition for term|position.
See also
spello
thinko
typo
it:scanno
ru:scanno
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