Significance vs. Scope — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Significance and Scope
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Definitions
Significance
The quality of being worthy of attention; importance
Adolescent education was felt to be a social issue of some significance
Scope
The range of one's perceptions, thoughts, or actions
Broaden one's scope by reading.
Significance
The meaning to be found in words or events
The significance of what was happening was clearer to me than to her
Scope
The opportunity or possibility to function or be active
Gave her imagination broad scope.
Significance
The extent to which a result deviates from that expected to arise simply from random variation or errors in sampling.
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Scope
The extent of a given activity or subject that is involved, treated, or relevant
The scope of the debate.
Significance
The state or quality of being significant
A matter of some significance.
Scope
The length or sweep of a mooring cable.
Significance
A meaning that is expressed or implied
What was the significance of that smile?.
Scope
(Linguistics) The range over a part of a sentence or discourse that a quantifier has an effect on.
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Significance
The extent to which something matters; importance
As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
Scope
A viewing instrument such as a periscope, microscope, or telescope.
Significance
Meaning.
The significance of a gesture
Scope
To examine or investigate, especially visually
Scoped the landscape for signs of wildlife.
Significance
The quality or state of being significant.
Scope
To examine using an optical instrument such as a telescope or an endoscope
Scoped the stars around Orion.
Scoped the patient's esophagus.
Significance
That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.
Scope
The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain.
Significance
Importance; moment; weight; consequence.
With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess.
Scope
(weapons) A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
Significance
The quality of being significant;
Do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power
Scope
Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom.
Significance
A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred;
The significance of his remark became clear only later
The expectation was spread both by word and by implication
Scope
(programming) The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed.
Significance
The message that is intended or expressed or signified;
What is the meaning of this sentence
The significance of a red traffic light
The signification of Chinese characters
The import of his announcement was ambigtuous
Scope
(logic) The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part.
Scope
(linguistics) The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies.
The scope of an adverb
Scope
(slang) A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope.
Scope
Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
Scope
(obsolete) A bundle, as of twigs.
Scope
To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
Scope
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.
Scope
To define the scope of something.
Scope
(programming) 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.
Scope
(informal) To examine under a microscope.
The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.
Scope
To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
Scope
That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object.
Your scope is as mine own,So to enforce or qualify the lawsAs to your soul seems good.
The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church.
Scope
Room or opportunity for free outlook or aim; space for action; amplitude of opportunity; free course or vent; liberty; range of view, intent, or action.
Give him line and scope.
In the fate and fortunes of the human race, scope is given to the operation of laws which man must always fail to discern the reasons of.
Excuse me if I have given too much scope to the reflections which have arisen in my mind.
An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope.
Scope
Extended area.
Scope
Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.
Scope
To look at for the purpose of evaluation; usually with out; as, to scope out the area as a camping site.
Scope
An area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
The range of a supersonic jet
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
Scope
The state of the environment in which a situation exists;
You can't do that in a university setting
Scope
A magnifier of images of distant objects
Scope
Electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
