scope

Meanings

Noun

• The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
• A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
• Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
• The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
• The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
• The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
• A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
• Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
• A bundle, as of twigs.

Verb

• To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
• To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
• To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
• To examine under a microscope.
• To observe a bird using a spotting scope.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• block scope
• child scope
• dynamic scope
• expression scope
• file scope
• function scope
• global scope
• isolated scope
• lexical scope
• module scope
• multi-level scope
• one-level scope
• root scope
• static scope
• three-level scope
• two-level scope

Origin

• From Italian scopo ("purpose"), from Latin scopus ("target"), from Ancient Greek σκοπός, from σκέπτομαι, from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum.
• Latin scopa