scope

Definitions

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