subscope

An inner scope contained within an outer scope.

Noun

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

Origin

From sub- + scope.

Forms

subscopes