scopes

Noun

scope (countable and uncountable, plural scopes)

1. The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; the extent of applicability or relevance; a domain, purview or remit.
   • Environmental impacts lie outside the scope of this report.

   Synonyms:

   compass, ambit

2. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
   • 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...2014, Sgt. Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis, On Scope: A Sniper Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   telescopic sight

3. Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.
   • My job doesn't give me much scope for personal development.
4. The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
   • 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...2001, Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath, Alison Huml, The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 72
5. The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
6. The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
   • the scope of an adverb

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