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-scope

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

Compare -scopy.

[Origin: < NL -scopium < Gk -skopion, -skopeion, equiv. to skop(eǐn) to look at (akin to sképtesthai to look, view carefully; cf. skeptic) + -ion, -eion n. suffix

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

[New Latin -scopium, from Greek -skopion, from skopein, to see; see spek- in Indo-European roots.]

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-scope
suff.

An instrument for viewing or observing: bronchoscope.

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Main Entry: scope
Pronunciation: 'skOp
Function: noun
: any of various instruments for viewing: as a : BRONCHOSCOPE b : GASTROSCOPE c : MICROSCOPE

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-scope

Hor"o*scope\, n. [F. horoscope, L. horoscopus, fr. Gr. ?, adj., observing hours or times, esp. observing the hour of birth, n., a horoscope; ? hour + ? to view, observe. See Hour, and -scope.]

1. (Astrol.) (a) The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment. (b) The diagram or scheme of twelve houses or signs of the zodiac, into which the whole circuit of the heavens was divided for the purposes of such prediction of fortune.

2. The planisphere invented by Jean Paduanus.

3. A table showing the length of the days and nights at all places. --Heyse.

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