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-scope

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-scope is an English suffix denoting viewing and observing. It derives from the scientific Latin suffix -scopium, meaning a viewing instrument, which in turn originates from the ancient Greek verb skopein, to examine.

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• cinemascope
• cystoscope
• electroscope
• endoscope
• finderscope
• fluoroscope
• gastroscope
• gonioscope
• gyroscope
• horoscope
• iconoscope
• interscope
• kaleidoscope
• kinescope
• kinetoscope
• laryngoscope
• macroscope
• microscope
• mutoscope
• ophthalmoscope
• oscilloscope
• periscope
• phantascope
• phenakistoscope
• polariscope
• praxinoscope
• radarscope
• rotoscope
• scleroscope
• seismoscope
• spectroscope
• stereoscope
• stethoscope
• telescope
• vitascope
• zoopraxiscope

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