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"Telescope" Definition
noun
An arrangement of lenses or mirrors or both that gathers visible light, permitting direct observation or photographic recording of distant objects.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
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.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
A usually tubular optical instrument for viewing distant objects by means of the refraction of light rays through a lens or the reflection of light rays by a concave mirror .
Source: Merriam-Webster
Any of various tubular magnifying optical instruments.
Source: Merriam-Webster
verb-transitive
To cause to slide inward or outward in overlapping sections, as the cylindrical sections of a small hand telescope do.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
To make more compact or concise; condense.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb-intransitive
To slide inward or outward in or as if in overlapping cylindrical sections: a camp bucket that telescopes into a disk.
Source: American Heritage Dictionary
verb
To become forced together lengthwise with one part entering another as the result of collision.
Source: Merriam-Webster
To slide or pass one within another like the cylindrical sections of a collapsible hand telescope.
Source: Merriam-Webster
To become compressed or condensed.
Source: Merriam-Webster
To cause to telescope.
Source: Merriam-Webster
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