scope

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 26.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.

2. noun A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
3. noun Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.

   My job doesn't give me much scope for personal development.

4. noun The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
5. noun The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
6. noun The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.

   the scope of an adverb

7. noun Ellipsis of any word ending in -scope, such as endoscope, periscope, telescope, microscope, oscilloscope, and so on.
8. noun Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.

Similar words

reach setting ambit background telescope oscilloscope range compass orbit cro

Often followed by

of and for to is in than or as

Word family

scoped scopes scoping