scoped

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of scope.

   The engineers scoped the requirements during their first meeting.

   She scoped out the competition before launching her own store.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs: the simple past (they scoped the project) and the participle after have or be (the patient was scoped). The meaning depends on which use of the verb sits behind it. It can mean a quick look, as in scoped out the venue, or casual shorthand for an endoscopy or colonoscopy. It can also be a birder's look through a spotting scope, or a variable fenced into one region of code.

2. 2
   adjective

   Restricted to a particular scope, so its visibility or effect applies only within a defined region of code or a given context.

   In modern JavaScript, a scoped variable declared with let stays confined to its enclosing block.

   The framework keeps each service scoped to the request that created it.

   Similarlocal, restricted, limited, confined

   Oppositeglobal

   Note

   A programmer's adjective, and an absolute one. A name is either confined to a region of code or it is not, so nothing is "more scoped" than anything else. It usually takes to plus the region: scoped to the block, scoped to the function. After be it blurs into the past participle, since the variable is scoped to the loop can describe either a state or the act of limiting it.

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