Scoping

verb

/ˈskoʊpiːŋ/

Word Frequency: 0.2

Definitions

1.verbTo perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.

2.verbTo 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.verbTo 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.verbTo examine under a microscope.

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

5.verbTo observe a bird using a spotting scope.

6.nounThe act of adding a scope