Overview of noun scopes

The noun scopes has 1 sense

• Scopes, John Scopes, John Thomas Scopes -- (Tennessee highschool teacher who violated a state law by teaching evolution; in a highly publicized trial in 1925 he was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow (1900-1970))

Overview of noun scope

The noun scope has 4 senses

• scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit -- (an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power")


• setting, background, scope -- (the state of the environment in which a situation exists; "you can't do that in a university setting")


• telescope, scope -- (a magnifier of images of distant objects)


• oscilloscope, scope, cathode-ray oscilloscope, CRO -- (electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities)