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nouna magnifier of images of distant objects
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"In the accident, the cars telescoped" "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"verbcrush together or collapse
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"the novel was telescoped into a short play"verbmake smaller or shortertype of:
Definition that contains telescope
- glass a small refracting telescope
- objective the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed
- resolution the ability of a microscope or telescope to measure the angular separation of images that are close together
- transit a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
- transit revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
- galileo Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642)
- reflector optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece
- equatorial a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it
- spyglass a small refracting telescope
- telescopic visible only with a telescope