Meaning

8 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Such transactions fall within the scope of VAT.

    Umfang, Bereich, Umgebung

    масшта́бmasštáb, преде́лpredél, разма́хrazmáx

  2. (countable, uncountable)A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.

  3. (countable, uncountable)Potential range of action; degree of freedom; opportunity.

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

    Spielraum, Bewegungsfreiheit, Raum

  4. (countable, uncountable)The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.

    Gültigkeitsbereich, Geltungsbereich, Anwendungsbereich

    область видимостиoblastʹ vidimosti

  5. (countable, uncountable)The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.

  6. (countable, uncountable)The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.

    the scope of an adverb

  7. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.

  8. (obsolete)A bundle, as of twigs.

More definitions
  • an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
  • electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
  • a magnifier of images of distant objects
  • the state of the environment in which a situation exists

Examples

34 sentences
  1. Make the scope of activity global.

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  2. This is beyond the scope of my imagination.

    ruЭто за пределами моего воображения.

    deDas übersteigt meine Phantasie.

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  3. That goes beyond the scope of our lesson.

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  4. That goes beyond the scope of this course.

    deDas sprengt den Rahmen dieses Kurses.

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  5. That is beyond the scope of our report.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
breadth, depth or reach of a subject; extent of applicability or relevance:
scope of an identifier:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
breadth, depth or reach of a subject; extent of applicability or relevance:
potential range of action; degree of freedom:
scope of an identifier:

Origin

From Italian scopo (“purpose”), from Latin scopus (“target”), from Ancient Greek σκοπός (s

From Italian scopo (“purpose”), from Latin scopus (“target”), from Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum.

Derived from Latin scopa.

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Forms

plural: scopes
Singularscope
Pluralscopes

regular

Synonyms

12 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedscopal
Derivedscopeless

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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