scope

Noun

• electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities

• a magnifier of images of distant objects

• the state of the environment in which a situation exists
  • you can't do that in a university setting
    

• an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"
  • a piano has a greater range than the human voice
    
  • 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  oscilloscope , cathode-ray oscilloscope , CRO , telescope , setting , background , range , reach , orbit , compass , ambit