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noun
A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
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noun
Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
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noun
A retractable tubular support for lights.
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Topics: broadcasting, media, television
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A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
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verb
To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
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Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
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verb
To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
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Usage: intransitive
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verb
To collapse, via cancellation.
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Usage: ambitransitive
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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noun
a magnifier of images of distant objects
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: scope
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Broader terms: magnifier
Narrower terms: astronomical telescope, collimator, equatorial, solar telescope, transit instrument
verb
make smaller or shorter
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Broader terms: digest, condense, concentrate
verb
crush together or collapse
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Broader terms: squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze
History
From tele- + -scope. From Latin tēlescopium, from Ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (tēleskópos, “far-seeing”), from τῆλε (têle, “afar”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look at”). Coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei's instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei. Doublet of Telescopium.
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