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Telescope

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An arrangement of lenses or mirrors or both that gathers visible light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects.

n. Any of various devices, such as a radio telescope, used to detect and observe distant objects by their emission, transmission, reflection, or other interaction with invisible radiation.

v. To cause to slide inward or outward in overlapping sections, as the cylindrical sections of a small hand telescope do.

v. To make more compact or concise; condense.

verb-intransitive. To slide inward or outward in or as if in overlapping cylindrical sections: a camp bucket that telescopes into a disk.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A monocular optical instrument possessing magnification for observing distant objects, especially in astronomy.

n. Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).

v. To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.

verb-intransitive. To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another; to become compressed in the manner of a telescope, due to a collision or other force.

v. To cause to come into collision, so as to telescope.

v. to shorten or abridge significantly.

adj. Capable of being extended or compacted, like a telescope, by the sliding of joints or parts one within the other; telescopic

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. An optical instrument by means of which distant objects are made to appear nearer and larger.

n. [capitalized] Same as Telescopium.

n. A telescope with its tube completely filled with water. Such an instrument was used by Airy at Greenwich, about 1870, as part of a zenith-sector, in order to settle by observation certain questions relating to the aberration of light.

To drive into one another like the movable joints or slides of a spy-glass: as, in the collision the forward cars were telescoped; to shut up or protrude like a jointed telescope.

To move in the same manner as the slides of a pocket-telescope; especially, to run or be driven together so that the one partially enters the other: as, two of the carriages telescoped.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. crush together or collapse

v. make smaller or shorter

n. a magnifier of images of distant objects

Word Usage

"We had been told that the computer at the Musk, which controls those webcams as well as the telescope (when the telescope is there) had failed due to low temperatures."

Verb Form

telescoped telescopes telescoping

Hypernym

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Cross Reference

dumb telescope horizontal telescope dialytic telescope keplerian telescope magnifying power of a telescope

Form

telescoped telescoping

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

telescopic tube reflector refractor glass

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

microscope camera lens instrument laser