TWAIN

See also: twain, Twain, and twäin

English

Etymology

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

TWAIN

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.

Anagrams

• Antwi, Wiant, waint, witan