scope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskəʊp/
ipa: /ˈskoʊp/
ipa: /ˈskəʉp/
ipa: /ˈskɐʉp/
ipa: /ˈsko(ː)p/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: scopes
Etymology: From Italian scopo (“purpose”), from Latin scopus (“target”), from Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum.
Senses: examples: text: Environmental impacts lie outside the scope of this report.
text: Such transactions fall within the scope of VAT.
synonyms: compass
glosses: The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit.
examples: text: Coastie yanked her eye away from the night scope when those big lights were caught by it and amplified in intensity. Her entire view had gone white in an instant. “I can't see!” Temporarily blinded, she let touch become her primary sense, dropped the M40, and grabbed her alternate weapon, an M16 with an ACOG day scope that was already registered for the same distance.
ref: 2014, Sgt. Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis, On Scope: A Sniper Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: telescopic sight
glosses: A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
examples: text: My job doesn't give me much scope for personal development.
text: It is also true that the vast majority of teachers are highly skilled and experienced professionals who are already doing an excellent job in the classroom, thus leaving relatively little scope for improvement.
ref: 2001, Mike Hughes, Andy Vass, Strategies for Closing the Learning Gap, page 19:
text: She had in fact put in a resume at another firm that gave their graphics team much more scope.
ref: 2014, Mary Kitt-Neel, Lie Down in Princess Position:
glosses: Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.
examples: text: A variable's scope is the region of a program within which the variable can be referred to by its simple name. Secondarily, scope also determines when the system creates and destroys memory for the variable. Scope is distinct from visibility, which applies only to member variables and determines whether the variable can be used from outside of the class within which it is declared.
ref: 2001, Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath, Alison Huml, The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 72:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
examples: text: the scope of an adverb
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
glosses: Alternative form of 'scope (“periscope, telescope, microscope, oscilloscope”).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
Hyponyms: sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: block scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: child scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: dynamic scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: expression scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: file scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: function scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: global scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: isolated scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: lexical scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: module scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: multi-level scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: one-level scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: root scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: scope bite
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: scope block
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: scope creep
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: scope dope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: static scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: three-level scope
sense: computing: region of program source where identifier is meaningful
word: two-level scope
Derived terms: beyond one's scope
beyond someone's scope
in-scope
scopeless