scoping
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Definitions ofscoping
- To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
- To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
Example: "The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament."
- To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
Example: "If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function."
- To examine under a microscope.
Example: "The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it."
- To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
- The act of adding a scope
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