7 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
-scope \-scope\ [Gr. skopo`s a watcher, spy. See {Scope}.]
A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing
(with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope,
telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Scope \Scope\, n. [It. scopo, L. scopos a mark, aim Gr
skopo`s, a watcher, mark, aim akin to ?, ? to view, and
perh. to E. spy. Cf {Skeptic}, {Bishop}.]
1. That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind
directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or
accomplished; hence ultimate design, aim or purpose;
intention; drift; object. ``Shooting wide, do miss the
marked scope.'' --Spenser.
Your scope is as mine own So to enforce or qualify
the laws As to your soul seems good. --Shak.
The scope of all their pleading against man's
authority, is to overthrow such laws and
constitutions in the church. --Hooker.
2. Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim space for
action amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent;
liberty; range of view, intent, or action
Give him line and scope. --Shak.
In the fate and fortunes of the human race, scope is
given to the operation of laws which man must always
fail to discern the reasons of --I. Taylor.
Excuse me if I have given too much scope to the
reflections which have arisen in my mind. --Burke.
An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or
scope. --Hawthorne.
3. Extended area. [Obs.] ``The scopes of land granted to the
first adventurers.'' --Sir J. Davies.
4. Length; extent; sweep; as scope of cable.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
scope
n 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: an instrument that magnifies the image of distant objects
[syn: {telescope}]
4: provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
[syn: {oscilloscope}, {cathode-ray oscilloscope}, {CRO}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
SCOPE
Software Evaluation and Certification Programme
Europe.
An {ESPRIT} project.
(1995-04-12)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
scope
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
"{occlude}d" by) the scope of the inner.
See also {activation record}, {dynamic scope}, {lexical
scope}.
(1994-11-01)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
SCOPE
SCalable Object Processing Environment Creamware
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
SCOPE
Simple COmmunications Programming Environment DFUe
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