scopes

Noun

• 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)
• an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
• the state of the environment in which a situation exists
• a magnifier of images of distant objects
• electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities
• plural of scope

Verb

• third-person singular simple present indicative of scope

Synonyms

ambit, background, cathode-ray oscilloscope, compass, CRO, John Scopes, John Thomas Scopes, orbit, oscilloscope, range, reach, scope, setting, telescope