noun

• (weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
  "Coastie yanked her eye away from the night scope when those big lights were caught by it and amplified in intensity. Her entire view had gone white in an instant. “I can't see!” Temporarily blinded, she let touch become her primary sense, dropped the M40, and grabbed her alternate weapon, an M16 with an ACOG day scope that was already registered for the same distance."
• (programming) The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
  "A variable's scope is the region of a program within which the variable can be referred to by its simple name. Secondarily, scope also determines when the system creates and destroys memory for the variable. Scope is distinct from visibility, which applies only to member variables and determines whether the variable can be used from outside of the class within which it is declared."
• (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
• (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
  "the scope of an adverb"

verb

• (informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
  "We don't know, so let's scope the action before having another shoot out."
• (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."
• (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."
• (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."

noun

• (obsolete) A bundle, as of twigs.