scoping
- 1Present participle and gerund of scope.
Our team is scoping the requirements for the upcoming software release.
Scoping the renovation carefully saved the owners from costly surprises later.
Note
One spelling carries a wide spread of verbs, and they differ in register. Scoping a project means setting its limits, and this use is neutral enough for any meeting. Scoping out a place is informal reconnaissance. Being scoped is colloquial shorthand for an endoscopy or colonoscopy. In programming, scoping a variable confines it to one region of code, the same idea behind the noun for adding a scope.
- 2The act of fitting a scope to a device, such as mounting a sighting optic onto a firearm or an instrument.
The scoping of the new carbine took the gunsmith most of the afternoon.
Careful scoping let the surveyor read distant markers without leaving the station.
Note
Programmers have their own use for this noun. Scoping means giving a variable or object a scope, which is the stretch of source code where its name can be seen and used. Outside a program the word also covers fitting an optic, so context decides the meaning. The plural, scopings, is available when several such limits are being compared.
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scoping is a form of scope
scope, verb: To set out the breadth and limits of a task or project. Full entry
- Spelling
- scope → scoping: drop the e, add -ing
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Origin
Formed from "scope" combined with the suffix "-ing".