(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:54:41

-scope (). [Gr. skopo`s a watcher, spy. See Scope.]

A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.

 

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