Scope vs Prominence - What's the difference?
scope | prominence | Related terms |
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.
(slang) Shortened form of periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
To perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out .
(slang) To perform arthroscopic surgery.
(slang) To examine under a microscope.
The state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
Relative importance.
A bulge: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.
(lb) Autonomous height; relative height or prime factor; a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains.
Scope is a related term of prominence.
As nouns the difference between scope and prominence
is that scope is the breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain while prominence is the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent.As a verb scope
is to perform a cursory investigation, as to scope out .scope
English
Noun
(en noun)- the scope of an adverb
Derived terms
* scopelessVerb
(scop)- The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.
- The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.
