scoping
Pronunciation:
/ˈskoʊpiːŋ/verb
Definitions
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.
noun
Definitions
The act of adding a scope