scoping

1. To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
2. To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.

   The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.

3. To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.

   If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function.

4. To examine under a microscope.

   The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.

5. To observe a bird using a spotting scope.

noun

The act of adding a scope