scope

• n. 射程距離; 余白; 視野; 目線の高さ; ミサイルの射程距離
• 検査する

ラテン語のscopus「視野」、scope「範囲」から。ギリシャ語のskopos「見る人」、observer「観察者」に由来し、PIE*spek「見る」、「見る」、「観察する」から転化したもので、語源的にはspectator「観客」、inspect「検査する」と同じ。

scope

scope: [16] Greek skopós meant ‘target’. As it passed via Italian scopo into English it evolved metaphorically to ‘aim kept in view, goal, purpose’ (‘the seventh Council of Carthage and the Milevitane Council, which both tend to one end and scope, that there should be no appellations made out of Africa’, Nicholas Harpsfield, The Pretended Divorce between Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon 1555), but the further step to ‘range’ seems to be an English development.

The Greek word came from the base *skop- ‘look, observe’, which also produced -skopos ‘looking’ (ultimate source of English bishop, which etymologically denotes ‘overseer’) and -skópion ‘instrument for observing’ (which lies behind English microscope, telescope, etc). Sceptic comes from a variant of the same base.
=> bishop, sceptic

scope (n.1)

"extent," 1530s, "room to act," from Italian scopo "aim, purpose, object, thing aimed at, mark, target," from Latin scopus, from Greek skopos "aim, target, object of attention; watcher, one who watches" from metathesized form of PIE *spek-yo-, from root *spek- "to observe" (cognates: Sanskrit spasati "sees;" Avestan spasyeiti "spies;" Greek skopein "behold, look, consider," skeptesthai "to look at;" Latin specere "to look at;" Old High German spehhon "to spy," German sp?hen "to spy"). Sense of "distance the mind can reach, extent of view" first recorded c. 1600.

scope (n.2)

"instrument for viewing," 1872, abstracted from telescope, microscope, etc., from Greek skopein "to look" (see scope (n.1)). Earlier used as a shortening of horoscope (c. 1600).

scope (v.)

"to view," 1807, from the source of scope (n.2). Related: Scoped; scoping.

1. Mr Dobson promised to widen the organisation 's scope of activity.

ドブソン氏は、組織の活動範囲を広げることを約束した。

2.Banks had increased scope to develop new financial products.

銀行は、新しい金融製品を開発するためのさらなる余地を残している。

3.There is still scope for new writers to break through.

まだ新しい作家たちが開拓する必要がある分野がある。

4.There 's still plenty of scope for improvement.

にはまだ大きな改善の余地がある。

5.Articles of this kind fall within the scope of our business activities.

このような商品は当社の経営範囲内である。