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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024tel•e•scope /ˈtɛləˌskoʊp/USA pronunciation n., adj., v., -scoped, -scop•ing. n. [countable] - Opticsa viewing instrument for making distant objects appear nearer when viewed.
adj. [before a noun] - consisting of parts that fit and slide one within another.
v. - to slide or force together (the parts of something), one into another: [no object]Her music stand telescoped into a portable, six-inch stick.[~ + object]to telescope the music stand.
- to shorten or condense;
compress:[~ + object]to telescope a speech.
See -scope-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tel•e•scope (tel′ə skōp′),USA pronunciation n., adj., v., -scoped, -scop•ing. n. - Opticsan optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms (refracting telescope) consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly;
the other form (reflecting telescope)has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed. Cf. radio telescope. - Astronomy(cap.) the constellation Telescopium.
adj. - consisting of parts that fit and slide one within another.
v.t. - to force together, one into another, or force into something else, in the manner of the sliding tubes of a jointed telescope.
- to shorten or condense;
compress:to telescope the events of five hundred years into one history lecture.
v.i. - to slide together, or into something else, in the manner of the tubes of a jointed telescope.
- to be driven one into another, as railroad cars in a collision.
- to be or become shortened or condensed.
- Italian)
- Neo-Latin; see -ium) and telescopio (
- 1610–20; tele-1 + -scope; replacing telescopium (
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: telescope /ˈtɛlɪˌskəʊp/ n - an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and brighter by use of a combination of lenses (refracting telescope) or lenses and curved mirrors (reflecting telescope)
- any instrument, such as a radio telescope, for collecting, focusing, and detecting electromagnetic radiation from space
vb - to crush together or be crushed together, as in a collision
- to fit together like a set of cylinders that slide into one another, thus allowing extension and shortening
- to make or become smaller or shorter
Etymology: 17th Century: from Italian telescopio or New Latin telescopium, literally: far-seeing instrument; see tele-, -scope |