TWAIN

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See also: twain, Twain, and twäin

English

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Etymology

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From twain, in reference to a line in Rudyard Kipling's poem The Ballad of East and West: "never the twain shall meet". This was chosen to reflect the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers.

Proper noun

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TWAIN

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  1. (computing) A standard software protocol and applications programming interface (API) that regulates communication between software applications and imaging devices such as scanners and digital cameras.

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