Scope

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Scope may refer to:

• Scope (programming), the range in which a variable can be referenced
• SCOPE (software), name used for several 1960s-era operating systems for the Control Data Corporation 60-bit 6000 series and the CDC 7600 mainframe computers
• Scope (project management), the sum of all projects products and their features. Limitations and inclusions of expectations, responsibilities, and objectives of a project or project plan.
• In mathematical logic, the "scope" of a quantifier or of any other variable-binding operator is defined in the article titled free variables and bound variables
• Scope (linguistics), the part part of a sentence over which a given word or phrase has a semantic effect.

In devices and instruments:

• -scope is a suffix used in English, for devices or instruments which are looked through, or looked at, or are used for observing or demonstrating; any instrument whose name ends in -scope can be referred to colloquially as a "scope"
• A telescopic sight mounted on a firearm

Organisations:

• Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)
• Scope (British charity), a charity organisation in Britain formaly known as The National Spastics Society which supports people with cerebral palsy
• SCOPE Alliance, an industry alliance set up to enable the development of carrier grade telecommunications platforms.

Other:

• Scope (mouthwash) is a mouthwash brand made by Procter & Gamble
• A film shot or projected anamorphically; originally referred to Cinemascope, but now applies to all anamorphic prints
• Scopes Trial (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925), often called the "Scopes Monkey Trial"), a landmark case regarding the teaching of the theory of evolution