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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]: SCOPESoftware 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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