subscope

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English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ scope.

Noun

subscope (plural subscopes)

  1. (computing) An inner scope contained within an outer scope.
    • 2008, Robert C. Seacord, The Cert C Secure Coding Standard:
      Do not reuse variable names in subscopes
    • 2010, Kai Sachs, Ilia Petrov, Pablo Guerrero, From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More, page 286:
      Lastly, a more powerful aggregation operation exploits the hierarchical relation between a scope and its subscopes.