Usually means: Range or extent of coverage.
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We found 58 dictionaries that define the word scope:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. -scope, scope: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -scope, scope: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scope: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -scope, scope: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scope: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scope, -scope, scope: Wordnik
  7. -scope, scope: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. scope: Wiktionary
  9. -scope, scope: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. -scope, scope: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scope: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. -scope, scope: Dictionary.com
  13. scope (1), scope (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. scope: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SCOPE (software), SCOPE, Scope (Australian TV series), Scope (British charity), Scope (Irish TV series), Scope (charity), Scope (computer science), Scope (logic), Scope (magazine), Scope (mouthwash), Scope (programming), Scope (project management), Scope (rifle), Scope, -scope: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scope, -scope: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scope: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scope: Rhymezone
  19. scope: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scope: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. -scope, scope: MyWord.info
  22. scope: Free Dictionary
  23. scope: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scope: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. -scope: Wiktionary

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. -scope: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  3. Scope: Lexicon of Linguistics
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bernstein's Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Scope: Investopedia
  3. Scope (disambiguation), scope: Legal dictionary
  4. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCOPE, scope: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Scope (disambiguation), Scope (programming), scope: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Scope (disambiguation), -scope, scope: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCOPE: Acronym Finder
  2. scope: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. scope: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scope: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. SCOPE: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. scope, scope: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. SCOPE: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCOPE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. SCOPE: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
noun:  (weaponry) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
noun:  Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
noun:  (programming) The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
noun:  (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
noun:  (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
noun:  (medicine, colloquial) Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
verb:  (informal, transitive) To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
verb:  (medicine, colloquial) To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
verb:  To define the scope of something.
verb:  (programming) To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
verb:  (informal) To examine under a microscope.
verb:  (birdwatching, informal) To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
noun:  (obsolete) A bundle, as of twigs.
noun:  Alternative form of 'scope (“periscope, telescope, microscope, oscilloscope”)

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