• 1. opportunity for exercising the faculties or abilities; capacity for action
• 2. range of view, perception, or grasp; outlook
• 3. the area covered by an activity, topic, etc; range
• 4. slack left in an anchor cable
• 5. that part of an expression that is governed by a given operator: the scope of the negation in PV-- ( q r ) is --( q r )
• 6. short for telescope microscope oscilloscope
• 7. purpose or aim
• 8. to look at or examine carefully
• 9. See also scope out
• 10. C16: from Italian scopo goal, from Lati...

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