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scope

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?sk??p/
  • IPA(key): /?sko?p/
  • Hyphenation: scope
  • Rhymes: -??p

Etymology 1

From Italian scopo (purpose), from Latin scopus (target), from Ancient Greek ?????? (skopós), from ????????? (sképtomai), from Proto-Indo-European *spe?-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum.

Noun

scope (countable and uncountable, plural scopes)

  1. The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
  2. (weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
    Synonym: telescopic sight
    • 2014, Sgt. Jack Coughlin, Donald A. Davis, On Scope: A Sniper Novel, St. Martin's Press (?ISBN)
  3. Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
    • 2001, Mike Hughes, Andy Vass, Strategies for Closing the Learning Gap (page 19)
      It is also true that the vast majority of teachers are highly skilled and experienced professionals who are already doing an excellent job in the classroom, thus leaving relatively little scope for improvement.
    • 2014, Mary Kitt-Neel, Lie Down in Princess Position
      She had in fact put in a resume at another firm that gave their graphics team much more scope.
  4. (programming) The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
    • 2001, Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath, Alison Huml, The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, Addison-Wesley Professional (?ISBN), page 72
  5. (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
  6. (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
  7. (slang) A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
  8. (medicine, colloquial) Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
  • in-scope
  • scopeless
Descendants
  • ? Irish: scóp
Translations

Verb

scope (third-person singular simple present scopes, present participle scoping, simple past and past participle scoped)

  1. (informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
  2. (medicine, colloquial) To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
    The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.
  3. (programming) To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
    If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function.
  4. (informal) To examine under a microscope.
    The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.
  5. (birdwatching, informal) To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
Translations

Etymology 2

Latin scopa

Noun

scope (plural scopes)

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

References

Anagrams

  • OPSEC, Pecos, copes, copse

Italian

Noun

scope f

  1. plural of scopa

Anagrams

  • cespo, pesco, pescò, speco

Latin

Noun

scope

  1. vocative singular of scopus

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plenitude

English

Etymology

From Middle English plenitude, that borrowed from Anglo-Norman plenitude, Middle French plenitude, and their source, Latin pl?nit?d?.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?pl?n?tju?d/

Noun

plenitude (countable and uncountable, plural plenitudes)

  1. Fullness; completeness. [from 15th c.]
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 393:
      Louis ignored him, recalling the parlements to the plenitude of their powers on 23 September.
  2. An abundance; a full supply. [from 17th c.]
    • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 156]:
      Mankind's old greatness was created in scarcity. But what may we expect from plenitude?
  3. (heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). [from 19th c.]

Derived terms

  • plenitude principle
  • plentitude

Related terms

  • plenty
  • plenitudine

Translations


Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?nit?d?.

Noun

plenitude f (oblique plural plenitudes, nominative singular plenitude, nominative plural plenitudes)

  1. plenitude; fullness

Descendants

  • ? English: plenitude
  • French: plénitude

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (plenitude, supplement)
  • plenitude on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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