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say it: skohp
scope is a noun meaning "an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"". It is pronounced /ˈskoʊp/ — skohp. It carries 4 recorded senses.
an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"
“a piano has a greater range than the human voice”
“the ambit of municipal legislation”
“within the compass of this article”
“within the scope of an investigation”
“outside the reach of the law”
“in the political orbit of a world power”
the state of the environment in which a situation exists
“you can't do that in a university setting”
electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for scope come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.