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scope

(1) A range of IP addresses.

(2) In programming, the visibility of variables within a program; for example, whether one function can use a variable created in another function.

(3) A CRT screen, such as used on an oscilloscope or common display terminal.

(4) See search scope.

scope
1. Nautical slack left in an anchor cable
2. Logic linguistics that part of an expression that is governed by a given operator: the scope of the negation in PV--(q⋀r) is --(q⋀r)
1.(project)SCOPE - Software Evaluation and Certification Programme Europe.

An ESPRIT project.
2.(programming)scope - The scope of an identifier is the region of a program source within which it represents a certain thing. This usually extends from the place where it is declared to the end of the smallest enclosing block (begin/end or procedure/function body). An inner block may contain a redeclaration of the same identifier in which case the scope of the outer declaration does not include (is "shadowed" or "occluded" by) the scope of the inner.

See also activation record, dynamic scope, lexical scope.


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If the irrational cannot be excluded, it should be outside the scope of the tragedy.
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I see a force producing effects beyond the scope of ordinary human agencies; I do not understand why this occurs and I talk of genius.
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The many books he had read filled his mind with ideas which, because he only half understood them, gave more scope to his imagination.
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