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noun
1.
extent or range of view, outlook, application, operation, effectiveness, etc.: an investigation of wide scope.
2.
space for movement or activity; opportunity for operation: to give one's fancy full scope.
3.
extent in space; a tract or area.
4.
length: a scope of cable.
5.
EXPANDaim or purpose.
6.
Linguistics, Logic. the range of words or elements of an expression over which a modifier or operator has control: In “old men and women,” “old” may either take “men and women” or just “men” in its scope.
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COLLAPSE(used as a short form of microscope, oscilloscope, periscope, radarscope, riflescope, telescopic sight, etc.)
verb (used with object)
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Slang. to look at, read, or investigate, as in order to evaluate or appreciate.
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scope out, Slang.
a.
to look at or over; examine; check out: a rock musician scoping out the audience before going on stage.
b.
to master; figure out: By the time we'd scoped out the problem, it was too late.
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-scope
a combining form meaning “instrument for viewing,” used in the formation of compound words: telescope.
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| scope (skəʊp) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | opportunity for exercising the faculties or abilities; capacity for action: plenty of scope for improvement |
| 2. | range of view, perception, or grasp; outlook |
| 3. | the area covered by an activity, topic, etc; range: the scope of his thesis was vast |
| 4. | nautical slack left in an anchor cable |
| 5. | logic, linguistics that part of an expression that is governed by a given operator: the scope of the negation in PV--(q∧r) is --(q∧r) |
| 6. | informal telescope microscope short for oscilloscope |
| 7. | archaic purpose or aim |
| —vb | |
| 8. | informal to look at or examine carefully |
| [C16: from Italian scopo goal, from Latin scopus, from Greek skopos target; related to Greek skopein to watch] | |
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Word Origin & History
scope
"extent," 1534, "room to act," from It. scopo "aim, purpose, object, thing aimed at, mark, target," from L. scopus, from Gk. skopos "aim, target, watcher," from PIE *spek- "to observe" (cf. Skt. spasati "sees;" Avestan spasyeiti "spies;" Gk. skopein "behold, look, consider," skeptesthai "to look at;"
EXPANDL. specere "to look at;" O.H.G. spehhon "to spy," Ger. spähen "to spy"). Sense of "distance the mind can reach, extent of view" first recorded c.1600.
scope
"instrument for viewing," 1872, abstracted from telescope, microscope, etc., from Gk. skopein "to look" (see scope (1)). Earlier used as a shortening of horoscope (c.1600). The verb is recorded from 1807.
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Medical Dictionary
-scope suff.
An instrument for viewing or observing: bronchoscope.
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Slang Dictionary
scope (on) (so) definition
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Computing Dictionary
SCOPE definition
projectSoftware Evaluation and Certification Programme Europe.
An ESPRIT project.
(1995-04-12)
scope definition
programmingThe scope of an identifier is the region of a program source within which it represents a certain thing. This usually extends from the place where it is declared to the end of the smallest enclosing block (begin/end or procedure/function body). An inner block may contain a redeclaration of the same identifier in which case the scope of the outer declaration does not include (is "shadowed" or "occluded" by) the scope of the inner.
See also activation record, dynamic scope, lexical scope.
(1994-11-01)
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