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-scope

-scope

a combining form meaning “instrument for viewing,” used in the formation of compound words: telescope.
Compare -scopy.


Origin:
< Neo-Latin -scopium < Greek -skopion, -skopeion, equivalent to skop(eîn) to look at (akin to sképtesthai to look, view carefully; compare skeptic) + -ion, -eion noun suffix
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-scope is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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World English Dictionary
-scope
 
n combining form
indicating an instrument for observing, viewing, or detecting: microscope; stethoscope
 
[from New Latin -scopium, from Greek -skopion, from skopein to look at]
 
-scopic
 
adj combining form

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Medical Dictionary

-scope suff.
An instrument for viewing or observing: bronchoscope.

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