Meaning

• The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.

• A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.

• Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.

• The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.

• The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.

• The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.

  "the scope of an adverb"

• A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.

• Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.

Meaning

• To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.

• 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."

• 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."

• To examine under a microscope.

  "The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it."

• To observe a bird using a spotting scope.