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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
purview
noun
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▪ And no Department will prepare a brief for its Minister on anything outside the departmental purview.
▪ Fertility was not the issue; the movement of the whole cosmos was in purview.
▪ Financial decisions about health plans or capital investments or raises are all properly the purview of the entrepreneur.
▪ Or is that kind of worrying the purview only of adults?
▪ Salary negotiations are normally not within the purview of the president.
▪ The draft may help win the war, such an eventuality is outside my purview.
▪ Those authors who operate independently of Palace purview soon discover that doors are quickly locked, bolted and barred to inquiry.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purview

Purview \Pur"view\, n. [OF. purveu, pourveu, F. pourvu, provided, p. p. of OF. porveoir, F. pourvoir. See Purvey, View, and cf. Proviso.]

    1. (Law) The body of a statute, or that part which begins with `` Be it enacted, '' as distinguished from the preamble.
      --Cowell.

    2. Hence: The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions.
      --Marshall.

      Profanations within the purview of several statutes.
      --Bacon.

  2. Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent.

    In determining the extent of information required in the exercise of a particular authority, recourse must be had to the objects within the purview of that authority.
    --Madison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
purview

mid-15c., "body of a statute," from Anglo-French purveuest "it is provided," or purveu que "provided that" (late 13c.), clauses that introduced statutes in old legal documents, from Anglo-French purveu, Old French porveu (Modern French pourvu) "provided," past participle of porveoir "to provide," from Latin providere "make ready" (see provide). Sense of "scope, extent" is first recorded 1788 in "Federalist" (Madison). Modern sense and spelling influenced by view (n.).

Wiktionary
purview

n. 1 (context legal English) The enacting part of a statute. 2 (context legal English) The scope of a statute. 3 Scope or range of interest or control. 4 range of understanding.

WordNet
purview

n. the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" [syn: horizon, view]

Wikipedia
PurVIEW

PurVIEW is an integrated image display and viewing plug-in software package that incorporates stereoscopic viewing technology for ESRI ArcGIS 9 (or later version). Essentially, PurVIEW is a photogrammetry-based data capture workstation that extend the ArcGIS environment. It converts Arc- desktops into precise stereo-viewing windows for geo-referenced aerial or space-borne imagery. Digitizing features directly yields positional accuracy comparable with photogrammetric mapping.

Using ArcMap, geodatabase contents can be directly accessed and reviewed superimposed on standard geo-referenced 3-dimensional image models, revealing errors and omissions, or natural changes.

PurVIEW's creators, International Systemap, are working with ESRI to develop seamless software integration for the 2010 release of ArcGIS 9.4.

PurVIEW is suitable for a number of professional fields, such as mapping, geomatics, geology, forestry and mining.

Usage examples of "purview".

It is an internal matter, although we are, of course, grateful to ghem-General Benin for his assistance dealing with any persons outside our purview who may have aided the ba in its .

Generic in this context refers to characteristics that are so fundamental to string theory that they are fairly insensitive to, if not completely independent of, those detailed properties of the theory that are now beyond our theoretical purview.

He was, however, an Africanist and anthropologist, and so included in his purview not only the higher civilizations but also the primitive, his leading concept being of three distinct great stages in the total development of the culture history of mankind.

Old Chancellery Square, now the almost exclusive purview of General Trager and his army, had been flattened and turned into a huge parade ground, big enough for his forces to drill on and big enough to be seen from the towers of Lionkeep.

Until the Assembly cut a deal with them, it continued to be an Allied world, which made it the purview of the Foreign Affairs Councilor.

The charges allege trademark infringement and other related matters falling within the purview of the Lanham Act, as well as libelous intent to disparage and make a mockery of plaintiffs good name.

Study after study has shown that there is a significant positive correlation between high aggression coefficient and inability to evolve into a society with a purview greater than a single solar system.

Even such simple functions as blinking and swallowing were out of her purview.

The corners of this coordinate plane were anchored by the wisdom teeth themselves, which even to the dentally unsophisticated Randy looked just a little disturbing in that each one was about the size of his thumb (though maybe this was just a distortion in the coordinate transform--like the famously swollen Greenland of Mercator) and they were pretty far away from any other teeth, which (logically) would seem to put them in parts of his body not normally considered to be within a dentist's purview, and they were at the wrong angle--not just a little crooked, but verging on upside down and backwards.