[skohp] 
noun, verb, scoped, scop⋅ing.| 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. | aim 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. |
| 7. | (used as a short form of microscope, oscilloscope, periscope, radarscope, riflescope, telescopic sight, etc.) |
| 8. | Slang. to look at, read, or investigate, as in order to evaluate or appreciate. |
| 9. | scope out, Slang.
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| scope (skōp) n.
To examine or investigate. Often used with out: "Their World Wide Web site is, for now, the best place to scope out the future of the media business in cyberspace." (Marc Gunther). [Italian scopo, aim, purpose, from Greek skopos, target, aim; see spek- in Indo-European roots.] |
scope (on) (so)
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-scope suff.
An instrument for viewing or observing: bronchoscope.
SCOPE project
Software Evaluation and Certification Programme Europe.
An ESPRIT project.
(1995-04-12)
scope programming
The 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)
