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Scope vs Optics - What's the difference?

scope | optics |

As nouns the difference between scope and optics

is that scope is the breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain while optics is the physics of light and vision.

As a verb scope

is to perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out.

scope

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
  • A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target
  • (computing) The region of program source in which an identifier is meaningful.
  • (logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
  • (linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
    • the scope of an adverb
  • (slang) Shortened form of periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.

    • Derived terms

    * scopeless

    Verb

    (scop)
  • To perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out .
  • (slang) To perform arthroscopic surgery.
    • The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.
  • (slang) To examine under a microscope.
    • The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.

    Anagrams

    * copes * copse ----

    optics

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (label) The physics of light and vision.
  • The light-related aspects of a device.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=Digging deeper, the invention of eyeglasses is an elaboration of the more fundamental development of optics technology. The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,
  • (label) Perception, image, public relations.
  • * 2007 January 1, (Mark Steyn), " Blowing a 'hinge moment' of history", in (The Jerusalem Post) :
    • ; if you have to have victims' loved ones present, go for the widows and photogenic orphans rather than Moqtada's boys.
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