extension vs scope

extension

noun
  • Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; — correlative of intension. 

  • The set of tuples of values that, used as arguments, satisfy the predicate. 

  • A file extension. 

  • University programs that are targeted at the broader (usually adults) community whose participants are not full-time enrolled students. 

  • That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension") 

  • A part of a building that has been extended from the original 

  • semantic widening, broadening of meaning 

  • An optional software component that adds functionality to an application. 

  • A simple offensive action, consisting of extending the weapon arm forward. 

  • The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase 

  • The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line. 

  • The state of being extended 

  • A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt. 

  • A numerical code used to specify a specific telephone in a telecommunication network. 

  • An exercise in which an arm or leg is straightened against resistance. 

  • A kind of derivative morpheme applied to verbs in Bantu languages. 

scope

noun
  • The breadth, depth or reach of a subject; a domain. 

  • The shortest sub-wff of which a given instance of a logical connective is a part. 

  • A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target. 

  • The region of program source code in which a given identifier is meaningful, or a given object can be accessed. 

  • The region of an utterance to which some modifying element applies. 

  • Any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc. 

  • Opportunity; broad range; degree of freedom. 

  • A periscope, telescope, microscope or oscilloscope. 

verb
  • To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc. 

  • To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out. 

  • To define the scope of something. 

  • To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code. 

  • To examine under a microscope. 

  • To observe a bird using a spotting scope. 

How often have the words extension and scope occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )