Dictionary Definition
scope
Noun
1 an area in which something acts or operates or
has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit
of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article";
"within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the
law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" [syn: range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit]
2 the state of the environment in which a
situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting" [syn:
setting, background]
3 a magnifier of images of distant objects [syn:
telescope]
4 electronic equipment that provides visual
images of varying electrical quantities [syn: oscilloscope, cathode-ray
oscilloscope, CRO]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈskəʊp/, /"sk@Up/
- /ˈskoʊp/, /"skoUp/
- Rhymes: -əʊp
Noun
- A short version of periscope, or telescope or oscilloscope
- 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
- The scope of an identifier is the region of a program source within which it represents a certain thing.
Translations
short version of periscope, or telescope or
oscilloscope
breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain
- Czech: rozsah
- Finnish: ulottuvuus, ala, laajuus
- Hebrew:
device used in aiming a projectile
- Finnish: kiikaritähtäin
scope of an identifier is the region of a
program source within which it represents a certain thing
- Finnish: näkyvyysalue
- Galician: alcance
- Spanish: alcance
Verb
- To perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out.
- To perform arthroscopic surgery.
- The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.
Translations
To perform a cursory investigation
- Finnish: tutkia
To perform arthroscopic surgery
Anagrams
Extensive Definition
Scope may refer to:
- Scope (programming), the range in which a variable can be referenced
- SCOPE (software), name used for several 1960s-era operating systems for the Control Data Corporation 60-bit 6000 series and the CDC 7600 mainframe computers
- Scope (project management), the sum of all projects products and their features. Limitations and inclusions of expectations, responsibilities, and objectives of a project or project plan.
- In mathematical logic, the "scope" of a quantifier or of any other variable-binding operator is defined in the article titled free variables and bound variables
- SCOPE (TV series)
- Norfolk Scope, an arena in Norfolk, Virginia
- Scope (linguistics), the part of a sentence over which a given word or phrase has a semantic effect
- Scope (formal logic), the formula upon which a quantifier acts
In devices and instruments:
- -scope is a suffix used in English, for devices or instruments which are looked through, or looked at, or are used for observing or demonstrating; any instrument whose name ends in -scope can be referred to colloquially as a "scope"
- A telescopic sight mounted on a firearm
Organisations:
- Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)
- Scope (British charity), a charity organisation in Britain formerly known as The National Spastics Society which supports people with cerebral palsy
- SCOPE Alliance, an industry alliance set up to enable the development of carrier grade telecommunications platforms
- The Scope (Newfoundland) is a bi-weekly alternative newspaper in St. John's, Newfoundland focusing on local arts and entertainment
See also
- Scope (mouthwash), a mouthwash brand made by Procter & Gamble
- A film shot or projected anamorphically; originally referred to CinemaScope, but now applies to all anamorphic prints
- Scopes Trial (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925), often called the "Scopes Monkey Trial"), a landmark case regarding the teaching of the theory of evolution
- Scopes
- Cope %28disambiguation%29
scope in Spanish: Alcance
scope in Japanese: スコープ
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a leg up, actionability, affective
meaning, ambit, amount, ample scope, amplitude, applicability, area, bearing, bigness, binoculars, blank check,
body, breadth, bulk, caliber, capacity, carry, carte blanche, chance, chromatoscope, clear
sight, clear stage, clearance, color vision,
coloring, command, compass, comprehensiveness,
cone vision, connotation, consequence, constitutional
validity, constitutionalism,
constitutionality,
coverage, cut, day vision, daylight vision,
degree, denotation, depth, diameter, diapason, dimension, dimensions, discernment, domination, drift, due process, effect, elbowroom, essence, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, eye, eye-mindedness, eyereach, eyeshot, eyesight, fair field, fair
game, farsight,
farsightedness,
field, field glass, field
of view, field of vision, force, free course, free hand,
free play, free scope, freedom, full scope, full swing,
fullness, gamut, gauge, girth, gist, glass, grade, grammatical meaning,
greatness, height, horizon, idea, impact, implication, import, intension, interval, jurisdiction, justice, justiciability, kaleidoscope, keen sight,
ken, largeness, latitude, lawfulness, leap, leeway, legal form, legal
process, legalism,
legality, legitimacy, legitimateness, length, level, lexical meaning, liberty, licitness, limit of vision,
line of sight, literal meaning, long rope, magnitude, maneuvering space,
margin, mark, mass, meaning, measure, measurement, naked eye,
night vision, no holds barred, notch, nuance, occasion, open space, opening, opera glasses, opportunism, opportunity, orbit, oscilloscope, outlook, outlook over, overtone, pas, peg, perception, period, peripheral field,
peripheral vision, periscope, perspective, perspicacity, perspicuity, pertinence, photopia, pitch, pith, place, plane, plateau, play, point, power of sight, practical
consequence, proportion, proportions, prospect, purport, purview, quick sight, radius, range, range of meaning, ratio, reach, real meaning, reference, referent, register, relation, relevance, remove, rightfulness, rod vision,
room, rope, round, rung, scale, scan, scope of vision, scotopia, sea room, seeing, semantic cluster,
semantic field, sense,
sense of sight, shade,
shadow, sight, sightedness, sightliness, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, size, space, span, span of meaning, spectroscope, spectrum, sphere, spirit, spread, spy glass, stair, standard, step, stepping-stone, stereoscope, stint, stretch, structural meaning,
substance, sum, sum and substance, survey, sweep, swing, symbolic meaning, telescope, tenor, terrestrial telescope,
time, tolerance, totality of
associations, transferred meaning, tread, twilight vision, unadorned
meaning, undertone,
unobstructed vision, validity, value, view, vision, vista, visual acuity, visual
field, visual sense, volume, way, wide berth, wideness, width, zoom
binoculars